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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808089003321

Autore

Wierzbicka Anna

Titolo

What did Jesus mean? : explaining the Sermon on the mount and the parables in simple and universal human concepts / / Anna Wierzbicka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-281-19666-5

9786611196660

0-19-803140-8

1-4356-1854-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464p.)

Disciplina

226.8/06

Soggetti

Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-495) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her theory of universal human concepts and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations.