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Dirk Bakker

De Gruyter Publishing, Operations, Production editor

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Dirk Bakker is a production editor with De Gruyter Brill publishers. His academic work focused on Semitic languages and cultures, most notably Aramaic/Syriac and Hebrew. His PhD was concerned with the linguistic analysis of the Syriac Book of the Laws of the Countries. Dirk has a general interest in linguistics, paleography, codicology, and writing systems of the world.

~~ Selected publications ~~

2007: Review of J. Lund, The Book of the Laws of the Countries. A Dialogue on Free Will versus Fate. A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007): Aramaic Studies 5/2: 276-282.

2008: 'Lemma and Lexeme. The Case of III-Aleph and III-Yodh Verbs' in J.W. Dyk & W.Th. van Peursen (eds.), Foundations for Syriac Lexicography III (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics 4), Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press: 11-25.

2011: Bardaisan's Book of the Laws of the Countries: A Computer-Assisted Linguistic Analysis/ (dissertation, Leiden University).

2011 (with W.Th. van Peursen): 'Digital Text Comparison of Ancient Hebrew Texts. A Case Study of the Two Accounts of the Battle against the Canaanite Army Captain Sisera (Judges 4-5)', in R.J. Korna, Kecheng Liu, N.R. Faber (eds.), Proceedings ICISO conference, Leeuwarden: Fryske Akademy: 145-152.

2013 (co-editor): The Old Testament in Syriac according to the Peshiṭta Version, Part IV Fasc. 4. Ezra and Nehemiah – 1–2 Maccabees, Leiden: Brill.
Supervisors: W.Th. (Willem) van Peursen and J.W. (Janet) Dyk

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The Bible in the Syriac Tradition

by Willem T H . Van Peursen, Dirk Bakker, and Bas ter Haar Romeny

Preliminary programme of the Amsterdam Summer School on Syriac Christianity, week 1 (20-24 July 2... more

Syriac Christianity in Context

by Willem T H . Van Peursen, Dirk Bakker, Peter-Ben Smit, and Bas ter Haar Romeny

This is the preliminary programme of the second week of the Amsterdam Summer School on Syriac Chr... more

Letters, wat zijn dat eigenlijk? (Taalcanon, 2012)

Dissertation: Bardaisan's Book of the Laws of the Countries: A Computer-Assisted Linguistic Analysis (2011)

(With W.Th. van Peursen) Digital Text Comparison of Ancient Hebrew Texts. A Case Study of the Two Accounts of the Battle against the Canaanite Army Captain Sisera (Judges 4-5) (2011)

Lemma and Lexeme: The Case of III-Aleph and III-Yodh Verbs (2008)

Review: J. Lund, The Book of the Laws of the Countries. A Dialogue on Free Will versus Fate. A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance (2007)

De Cherub en de Dief: Een Syrisch Dispuut aan de Poort van het Paradijs (MA thesis, Dutch) (Doctoraalscriptie, 2005)

Syriac/Aramaic: book chapters by Dirk Bakker

‘Lemmatization and Grammatical Categorization: The Case of Haymen in Classical Syriac’, in K.S. Heal and A.G. Salvesen (eds.), Foundations for Syriac Lexicography IV. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics 5; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias; 2014), 73–80.

by Willem T H . Van Peursen and Dirk Bakker

Decisions concerning morphological analysis have a considerable impact on the lexicographer’s wor... more Decisions concerning morphological analysis have a considerable impact on the lexicographer’s work. An example is the treatment of ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ in Syriac grammars and dictionaries. Is it a stem formation of the verb ܐܡܢ? If so, is it a Paiʿel (R. and J. Payne Smith), a Paʿʿel (cf. Muraoka) or an Aphʿel/Haphʿel (Nöldeke, Costaz)? If not, can anothܶerܰ type of relationship between ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ and the root ܐܡܢ be established? Is ܗܝܡܢ a denominative verb from ܐܡܝܢ (Duval), or a borrowing of the Hebrew Hiphʿil האמין (Brockelmann)? How should we account for the Hē, which differs both from the first root letter of ܐܡܢ and from the regular causative prefix in Syriac? Is it the result of strengthening (Duval)? Or the preservation of an ancient form (Nöldeke)? These questions will be addressed in this paper. We will argue that there is an etymological rather than an inflectional relationship with the root ܐܡܢ, and that for that reason in dictionaries ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ should be treated as a quadriliteral root.

The Bible in the Syriac Tradition

by Willem T H . Van Peursen, Dirk Bakker, and Bas ter Haar Romeny

Preliminary programme of the Amsterdam Summer School on Syriac Christianity, week 1 (20-24 July 2... more

Syriac Christianity in Context

by Willem T H . Van Peursen, Dirk Bakker, Peter-Ben Smit, and Bas ter Haar Romeny

This is the preliminary programme of the second week of the Amsterdam Summer School on Syriac Chr... more

Letters, wat zijn dat eigenlijk? (Taalcanon, 2012)

Dissertation: Bardaisan's Book of the Laws of the Countries: A Computer-Assisted Linguistic Analysis (2011)

(With W.Th. van Peursen) Digital Text Comparison of Ancient Hebrew Texts. A Case Study of the Two Accounts of the Battle against the Canaanite Army Captain Sisera (Judges 4-5) (2011)

Lemma and Lexeme: The Case of III-Aleph and III-Yodh Verbs (2008)

Review: J. Lund, The Book of the Laws of the Countries. A Dialogue on Free Will versus Fate. A Key-Word-in-Context Concordance (2007)

De Cherub en de Dief: Een Syrisch Dispuut aan de Poort van het Paradijs (MA thesis, Dutch) (Doctoraalscriptie, 2005)

‘Lemmatization and Grammatical Categorization: The Case of Haymen in Classical Syriac’, in K.S. Heal and A.G. Salvesen (eds.), Foundations for Syriac Lexicography IV. Colloquia of the International Syriac Language Project (Perspectives on Syriac Linguistics 5; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias; 2014), 73–80.

by Willem T H . Van Peursen and Dirk Bakker

Decisions concerning morphological analysis have a considerable impact on the lexicographer’s wor... more Decisions concerning morphological analysis have a considerable impact on the lexicographer’s work. An example is the treatment of ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ in Syriac grammars and dictionaries. Is it a stem formation of the verb ܐܡܢ? If so, is it a Paiʿel (R. and J. Payne Smith), a Paʿʿel (cf. Muraoka) or an Aphʿel/Haphʿel (Nöldeke, Costaz)? If not, can anothܶerܰ type of relationship between ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ and the root ܐܡܢ be established? Is ܗܝܡܢ a denominative verb from ܐܡܝܢ (Duval), or a borrowing of the Hebrew Hiphʿil האמין (Brockelmann)? How should we account for the Hē, which differs both from the first root letter of ܐܡܢ and from the regular causative prefix in Syriac? Is it the result of strengthening (Duval)? Or the preservation of an ancient form (Nöldeke)? These questions will be addressed in this paper. We will argue that there is an etymological rather than an inflectional relationship with the root ܐܡܢ, and that for that reason in dictionaries ܰܗܝ ܶܡܢ should be treated as a quadriliteral root.