Bo Isaksson
Professor in Semitic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
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751 26 UPPSALA - Available:
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Publications
Selection of publications
The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant: Subordinate structures in Isaiah 52,13-53,12
Part of En pāsē grammatikē kai sophiā, p. 173-212, Editioni Terra Santa, 2011
Review of Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, vol. I, A-D
Part of Langues et Literatures du Monde Arabe, p. 148-150, 2009
Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: the case of Arabic and Hebrew
Otto Harrassowitz, 2009
Circumstantial qualifiers in the Arabic dialect of Kinderib (East Turkey)
Part of Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, p. 251-258, 2008
Part of Conservatism and innovation in the Hebrew language of the Hellenistic period, p. 79-91, Brill, 2008
Semitic circumstantial qualifiers in the Book of Judges: a pilot study on the infinitive
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 163-172, 2007
The syntax of the narrative discourse in Qohelet
Part of The language of Qohelet in its context, p. 35-46, Peeters, 2007
Part of The professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years, p. 145-162, 2007
2007
In Memoriam. Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 5-6, 2006
Frithiof Rundgren: Gigantisk lärdom, humanism och skarpsinne
Part of Dagens Nyheter, 2006
Infinitiven som adverbiellt komplement i Domarboken: En komparativ studie
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 107-118, 2005
Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case studies from Iranian Semitic and Turkic
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Balansräkning: Predikaren berättar om sin uppgörelse med livet och visheten
Part of Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. Årsbok 2004, p. 19-38, Kungl. Humanistiska vetenskaps-samfundet i Uppsala, 2005
Review of Arabische Texte aus Kinderib, by Otto Jastrow
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 222-223, 2005
Aspektläran/ Aspectology: Frithiof Rundgren i Uppsala / Frithiof Rundgren in Uppsala
Part of Till Österland vill jag fara / The Call of the Orient, p. 54-59, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, 2005
New linguistic data from the Sason area in Anatolia
Part of Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion., p. 181-190, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological. Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
2005
Towards a corpus-based syntax of the Arabic language. Review article
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 165-185, 2004
Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
2004
Review of Der arabische Dialekt der Khawetna I-II, by Shabo Talay
Part of Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, p. 343-347, 2004
The notion of diachrony and the modern Arabic dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 211-219, 2003
Sason: New data from a nearly forgotten Arabic minority in Turkey
Part of Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AÏDA), p. 39-49, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, Cádiz, 2003
Three border towns between Turkey and Syria: ʿĀmūda, Dǝrbēsiyye and Rās ǝl-ʿAyn
Part of „Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!“ 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik, p. 311-335, Harrassowitz, 2002
The Hebrew manuscript from the ‘The new find’ in the Monastery of St. Catherine: A Jewish Machzor
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 47-58, 2000
The non-standard first person singular pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects
Part of Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, p. 54-83, 1999
‘Aberrant’ usages of introductory wǝhāyā in the light of text linguistics
Part of Lasset uns Brücken bauen..., p. 9-25, Peter Lang, 1998
Studies in the language of Qoheleth. With special emphasis on the verbal system
Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1987
Recent publications
Geoffrey Khan’s Contribution to the Problem of Biblical Hebrew Consecutive Weqaṭal
Part of Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan, p. 5-36, Open Book Publisher, 2025
The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses
Open Book Publishers, 2024
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The Biblical Hebrew short yiqṭol and the ‘consecutive tenses’
Part of New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, p. 197-240, OpenBook Publishers, 2021
Part of The rod and measuring rope, p. 35-37, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
Dödahavsrullarna och det hebreiska språket
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 66-85, 2018
All publications
Articles in journal
Dödahavsrullarna och det hebreiska språket
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 66-85, 2018
Part of Journal of Semitic Studies, p. 15-45, 2014
Semitic circumstantial qualifiers in the Book of Judges: a pilot study on the infinitive
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 163-172, 2007
In Memoriam. Frithiof Rundgren (1921–2006)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 5-6, 2006
Frithiof Rundgren: Gigantisk lärdom, humanism och skarpsinne
Part of Dagens Nyheter, 2006
Infinitiven som adverbiellt komplement i Domarboken: En komparativ studie
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 107-118, 2005
Part of Upsala Nya Tidning, 2005
Den judiska gudstjänstpoesin i ljuset av en handskrift från S:ta Katharinaklostret
Part of Religion och Bibel: Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets Årsbok, p. 34-43, 2004
Towards a corpus-based syntax of the Arabic language. Review article
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 165-185, 2004
The notion of diachrony and the modern Arabic dialects
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 211-219, 2003
The Hebrew manuscript from the ‘The new find’ in the Monastery of St. Catherine: A Jewish Machzor
Part of Nordisk judaistik - Scandinavian Jewish Studies, p. 47-58, 2000
Review of Theologie aus der Peripherie.: Die gespaltene Koordination im Biblischen Hebräisch
Part of Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, p. 685-691, 1999
The non-standard first person singular pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects
Part of Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, p. 54-83, 1999
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 217-220, 1996
The personal morphological space and a notion of distance in Semitic grammar
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 96-105, 1993
Att närma sig verkligheten: Några tankar om vishetens väg i det forna Israel
Part of Religion och Bibel, p. 35-42, 1992
The personal markers in the modern Arabic dialects of the Arabian peninsula
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 117-145, 1991
A response to John G. Gammie’s review of Studies in the Language of Qoheleth
Part of Hebrew Studies, p. 275-276, 1990
The position of Ugaritic among the Semitic languages
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 54-70, 1989
Concerning two arguments of H. Bauer for a priority of the so-called imperfect (the ‘Aorist’)
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 181-187, 1986
Books
The Verb in Classical Hebrew: The Linguistic Reality behind the Consecutive Tenses
Open Book Publishers, 2024
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The Arabic Dialect of Tillo in the Region of Siirt (South-eastern Turkey): Textbook
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016
Circumstantial qualifiers in Semitic: the case of Arabic and Hebrew
Otto Harrassowitz, 2009
Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala universitet, 2007
Inst. för lingvistik och filologi, 2004
Uppsala : Institutionen för afro-asiatiska språk, Univ., 1998
Studies in the language of Qoheleth. With special emphasis on the verbal system
Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1987
Chapters in book
Geoffrey Khan’s Contribution to the Problem of Biblical Hebrew Consecutive Weqaṭal
Part of Interconnected Traditions: Semitic Languages, Literatures, Cultures—A Festschrift for Geoffrey Khan, p. 5-36, Open Book Publisher, 2025
The Biblical Hebrew short yiqṭol and the ‘consecutive tenses’
Part of New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew, p. 197-240, OpenBook Publishers, 2021
Part of The rod and measuring rope, p. 35-37, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019
Part of Advances in Biblical Hebrew Linguistics, p. 233-269, Eisenbrauns, 2017
Part of Arabic and Semitic Linguistics Contextualized, p. 404-424, Otto Harrassowitz, 2015
The Verbal System of Biblical Hebrew: A clause combining approach
Part of Clause Combining in Semitic, p. 169-268, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
The so-called we-qatal conjugation in Biblical Hebrew once again
Part of Papers read at the 11 Mainz International Colloquium on Ancient Hebrew (MICAH), University of Mainz, 1-3 November 2013, p. 71-117, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, 2015
The main line of a biblical Hebrew narrative and what to do with two perfective grams
Part of Proceedings of the Oslo–Austin Workshop in Semitic Linguistics, Oslo, May 23 and 24, 2013, p. 73-94, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014
Archaic biblical Hebrew poetry: The linking of finite clauses
Part of Strategies of Clause Linking in Semitic Languages, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2014
Subordination: Biblical Hebrew
Part of Encyclopedia of Hebrew Language and Linguistics, vol. 3, p. 657-664, Brill Academic Publishers, 2013
The textlinguistics of the Suffering Servant: Subordinate structures in Isaiah 52,13-53,12
Part of En pāsē grammatikē kai sophiā, p. 173-212, Editioni Terra Santa, 2011
Dödahavsrullarna översatta till svenska
Part of Fest för språken, Språkvetenskapliga fakulteten, 2009
Part of Conservatism and innovation in the Hebrew language of the Hellenistic period, p. 79-91, Brill, 2008
The syntax of the narrative discourse in Qohelet
Part of The language of Qohelet in its context, p. 35-46, Peeters, 2007
Balansräkning: Predikaren berättar om sin uppgörelse med livet och visheten
Part of Kungliga Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala. Årsbok 2004, p. 19-38, Kungl. Humanistiska vetenskaps-samfundet i Uppsala, 2005
Part of Till Österland vill jag fara: Professuren i semitiska språk vid Uppsala universitet 400 år / The Call of the Orient: The Professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years, p. 4-11, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, 2005
Aspektläran/ Aspectology: Frithiof Rundgren i Uppsala / Frithiof Rundgren in Uppsala
Part of Till Österland vill jag fara / The Call of the Orient, p. 54-59, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, 2005
New linguistic data from the Sason area in Anatolia
Part of Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion., p. 181-190, RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Reflections on the linguistic situation in Anatolia and northern Syria from a Semitist's perspective
Part of The role of the state in West and Central Asia, Research Institute in Istanbul, 2005
Sason: New data from a nearly forgotten Arabic minority in Turkey
Part of Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe (AÏDA), p. 39-49, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, Cádiz, 2003
Three border towns between Turkey and Syria: ʿĀmūda, Dǝrbēsiyye and Rās ǝl-ʿAyn
Part of „Sprich doch mit deinen Knechten aramäisch, wir verstehen es!“ 60 Beiträge zur Semitistik, p. 311-335, Harrassowitz, 2002
Expressions of evidentiality in two Semitic languages: Hebrew and Arabic
Part of Evidentials, p. 383-399, Mouton de Gruyter, 2000
Iranian and Turkic influence on border area Arabic dialects: A contact linguistic investigation
Part of Proceedings of the Third International Conference of AÏDA – Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe – held in Malta 29 March - 2 April 1998, p. 201-206, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, 2000
Report from a research project and in addition a brief account of the dialect of Amuda
Part of Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of AÏDA – Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe – held in Marrakesh 1-4 April 2000, p. 201-210, Association Internationale de Dialectologie Arabe, 2000
‘Aberrant’ usages of introductory wǝhāyā in the light of text linguistics
Part of Lasset uns Brücken bauen..., p. 9-25, Peter Lang, 1998
The Monastery of St. Catherine and the New Find
Part of Built on Solid Rock, p. 128-140, Novus, 1997
Andalusien – islam i Europa under 700 år
Part of Att förstå Europa – mångfald och sammanhang, p. 81-92, Uppsala universitet, 1996
Dödahavsrullarna: En översikt över den senare forskningen
Part of Qumranlitteraturen, p. 7-33, Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1996
The separate first person pronoun in the modern Arabic dialects
Part of Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of L’Association Internationale pour la Dialectologie Arabe, held at Trinity Hall in the University of Cambridge, 10-14 September 1995, p. 75-84, University Publications Centre, 1996
Collections (editor)
Dödahavsrullarna: Svensk översättning
Bibelakademiförlaget, Svenska bibelsällskapet, 2017
Clause Combining in Semitic: The circumstantial clause and beyond
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. LX (2011)
Uppsala universitet, 2012
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 59 (2010)
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, 2010
Orientalia Suecana: Vol. 58 (2009)
Department of linguistics and philology, Uppsala universitet, 2009
Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
2007
Linguistic Convergence and Areal Diffusion: Case studies from Iranian Semitic and Turkic
RoutledgeCurzon, 2005
Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological. Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
2005
Orientalia Suecana: An International Journal of Indological, Iranian, Semitic and Turkic Studies
2004
About the Berbers: History, Language, Culture and Socio-Economic Conditions
Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala, 2004
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapet, Uppsala, 1998
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1998
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapet, Uppsala, 1998
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1996: Religionen och könsrollerna
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapet, Uppsala, 1996
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1995: Personlig religion
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapet, Uppsala, 1995
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapets årsbok 1994
Nathan Söderblom-sällskapet, Uppsala, 1994
Conference papers
Circumstantial qualifiers in the Arabic dialect of Kinderib (East Turkey)
Part of Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, p. 251-258, 2008
Part of The professorship of Semitic languages at Uppsala University 400 years, p. 145-162, 2007
Conference proceedings (editor)
2014
2007
Other
Part of Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, p. 247-251, 2014
Review of Encyclopedia of Arabic language and linguistics, vol. I, A-D
Part of Langues et Literatures du Monde Arabe, p. 148-150, 2009
Review of Arabische Texte aus Kinderib, by Otto Jastrow
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 222-223, 2005
Review of Der arabische Dialekt der Khawetna I-II, by Shabo Talay
Part of Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, p. 343-347, 2004
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 115-132, 1996
Part of Svensk Exegetisk Årsbok, p. 121-123, 1990