Syntactic Amgiguity in Old Testament Exegisis

FAIN: RO-*0916-78

Yeshiva University (New York, NY 10033-3201)
Richard C. Steiner (Project Director: February 1978 to October 1990)

To find a statistically significant bias in the exegetical perception of syntactic ambiguities on the Old Testament; to account for that bias using psycholinguistic principles of perception and to determine experimentally whether modern speakers of Hebrew show similar bias in perceiving those ambiguities.