Das hebräische Pausalsystem: Rezensionsartikel zu E. J. Revell, The Pausal System

The article is a detailed review of E. J. Revell, The Pausal System: Divisions in the Hebrew Biblical Text as Marked by Voweling and Stress Position (Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity 10), ed. R. de Hoop - P. Sanders, Sheffield 2015. The review adds a number of details about the masoretic pausal system. Albeit the reviewer mostly agrees with R.'s descriptions, he holds - contrary to the work under review - that some of the pausal forms depend on the prosody expressed by the masoretic accents. The article includes a comprehensive study of the conditions, in which an introduction of direct speech is marked with pausal or context forms.