Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- SERIES PREFACE -- THE COMPLEXITY OF SIMPLICITY -- EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS VOLUME -- INTRODUCTION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- EXAMINING VERBS: PUTTING SYNTAX INTO LEXICA AND GRAMMARS -- CHAPTER 1. WHO COMMITS ADULTERY WITH WHOM, AND WHY IT MATTERS IN A LEXICON -- CHAPTER 2. SOUNDINGS WITH REGARD TO VERBAL VALENCY IN THE PESHITTA OLD TESTAMENT -- CHAPTER 3. HOW DO HEBREW VERBS DIFFER? A FLOW CHART OF THE DIFFERENCES -- CHAPTER 4. VALENCY: THE INTERSECTION OF SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS -- CHAPTER 5. HOW TO CLASSIFY HEBREW VERBS: PLOTTING VERB-SPECIFIC ROLES -- CHAPTER 6. THE PROPER ROLE OF VALENCY IN BIBLICAL HEBREW STUDIES -- EXAMINING PARTICLES: LEXICAL CORRESPONDENCES AND LEXICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- CHAPTER 7. THE USE OF SYRIAC IN RENDERING HEBREW הִנּהֵ AND GREEK ἰΔΟΎ OR ἴΔΕ IN THE PESHITTA TO GENESIS AND THE GOSPELS -- CHAPTER 8. THE FUNCTION AND ETYMOLOGY OF THE ARAMAIC PARTICLE LM: A REEXAMINATION -- EXAMINING MANUSCRIPTS AND TEXT-CRITICAL MATTERS -- CHAPTER 9. EXPLORING PATTERNS OF ACCENTUATION IN BL ADD. MS 12138 (THE EAST-SYRIAN "MASORA"): PERSPECTIVES AND POSSIBILITIES -- CHAPTER 10. EMBEDDED ORACLES: SORTILEGE IN A SYRIAC GOSPEL CODEX -- CHAPTER 11. THE LEXICON OF THE TABERNACLE ACCOUNTS IN THE SYROHEXAPLA VERSION OF EXODUS -- CHAPTER 12. TOWARDS A NEW CRITICAL EDITION AND TRANSLATION OF ISHOʻDAD OF MERW'S COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN WITH AN IDENTIFICATION OF HIS SOURCES -- CHAPTER 13. THE HEBREW AS A TEXT CRITICAL TOOL IN RESTORING GENUINE PESHITTA READINGS IN ISAIAH -- INDEX