Dr. Emmanuel Mastey

Fields of Interest:

- Dialectology of Mishnaic Hebrew 

- The Greek Component in Mishnaic Hebrew

- Late Biblical Hebrew

- Aramaic (Old to Late) including Syriac

A Collaborative Book
Avi Hurvitz in collaboration with Leeor Gottlieb, Aaron Hornkohl and Emmanuel Mastey, A Concise Lexicon of Late Biblical Hebrew, Leiden and Boston, Brill, 2014 (270 pp.).

Journal Articles
1. “A Linguistic Inquiry Solves an Ancient Crime: Reexamination of 2 Samuel 4:6,” Vetus Testamentum 61 (2011), pp. 82–103. [English] 

2. חיתוך שאינו בסכין אלא באש [“A Secondary Root H-T-K in Mishnaic Hebrew”], Lešonenu 73 (2012), pp. 122–177. [Hebrew] 

3. יושב ויישוב בלשון חז"ל [“The Terms ‘Yoshev’ and ‘Yishuv’ (i.e. Settlement) in Mishnaic Hebrew”], Language Studies 14-15 (2013), pp. 69-79. [Hebrew]

4. לשונות נכחדים בכתב יד קאופמן למשנה [“Reconstructing Linguistic Forms in MS Kaufmann of the Mishnah”], Lešonenu 76 (2014), pp. 79-105. [Hebrew]

5. פירוש נשכח למונח חוצני פשתן (משנה, פאה, ו, ה) [“A Forgotten Explanation to the Mishnaic Term ḥuṣne pištan (flax bundles) in Mishnah Pe’a 6:5”], Lešonenu 78 (2016), pp. 269-282. [Hebrew]

6. “‘And They Shall Beat Their Swords into… Scrapers’: Two Case Studies in the Vocabulary of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic,” Journal of Semitic Studies 63 (2018), pp. 353-380. [English]

7. “Some Unique Lexica in the Jerusalem Talmud,” Journal of Jewish Studies 70 (2019), pp. 237-255. [English]

8. לגיזרונה ולפירושה של "אֲגַרְטְלֵי" (עזרא א 9) [“The Etymology and Meaning of אֲגַרְטְלֵי (Ɂăgarṭəlē) in Ezra 1:9”], Lešonenu 82 (2020), pp. 240-250. [Hebrew]

9. האדוורב 'עוד' בלשון המקרא: תחביר, משמעות וכרונולוגיה [“The Adverb ‘od (‘more’) in Biblical Hebrew: Syntax, Semantics and Chronology”], Shnaton: An Annual for Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies 26 (2020), pp. 213-256. [Hebrew]

10. Nili Samet and Emmanuel Mastey, “The Quivis Construction in Biblical Hebrew: A History of a Syntactic Change,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 143.4 (2023), pp. 767-784. [English]

11. הנוסחה "ביד פלוני" בהקשר נבואי: מקרה של דיאכרוניה תחבירית [“The Formula ‘By The Hand Of-’ in Prophetic Context: A Case of Syntactic Diachrony”], Language Studies 19 (2021), pp. 169-190. [Hebrew]

12. “Biblical Aramaic Passive Stems: A Reexamination of Some Intriguing Cases,” Aramaic Studies 20 (2022), pp. 9-27. [English]

13. כיצד השפיעו הבדלי דיאלקט על פרשנות המקורות הארץ‏‏־ישראליים בתלמוד הבבלי: שני עיונים [“How Dialectal Differences Affected the Interpretation of Mishnaic Sources by the Babylonian Talmud: Two Case Studies”], Lešonenu 84 (2022), pp. 269-291. [Hebrew]

14. “What was Iliesis of Tiberias (אילסיס דטיבריה) and where was it? A New Solution to an Old Geographic-Linguistic Riddle,” Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 172 (2022), pp. 283-302.  [English]

15. לול וגלגוליה מלשון המקרא ללשון חז"ל [“The Term לול and its Transformation: from Biblical to Rabbinic Hebrew”], Leshonenu 87 (2025), pp. 119-139. [Hebrew]

16. על הניסים ועל התִּשים: ערכים חדשים בלשון האמוראים [“For the Miracles and on the Feebles: New Entries in Amoraic Hebrew”], Language Studies 21-22 (2025), pp. 413-429. [Hebrew]

Forthcoming

1. המילים 'קלקלה' ו'קלון' ופירושה של המשנה הוריות ג, ז [“The Words קלקלה and קלון and the Meaning of Mishnah Horayot 3:7”], accepted for publication in Tarbiz (33 pp.) [Hebrew]

2. “Dialectology of Rabbinic Hebrew: Idiomatic Expressions of Death,” accepted for publication in Journal of Semitic Studies [English]

Proceedings

“Cases of Semantic Variation in Mishnaic Hebrew: The Verbs hilleḵ and qaraṣ,” in: A. J. Koller and E. A. Bar-Asher Siegal (eds.), Studies in Mishnaic Hebrew and Related Fields: Proceedings of the Yale Symposium on Mishnaic Hebrew May 2014, Jerusalem and New Haven (Yale, 2017), pp. 189-220.