A cognitive semantic study of biblical Hebrew : the root šlm for completeness-balance / / by Andrew Chin Hei Leong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910816635103321
• Autore: Leong Andrew Chin Hei
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 90-04-46977-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics ; ; Volume 104
• Disciplina: 492.456
• Soggetti: Shlm (The Hebrew root)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 A Survey of Previously Conducted Research -- 2 The Semitic Cognates of שׁלם -- 3 Research Question -- 4 Limitations of Our Research -- 5 Outline of the Book -- 1 Methodology -- 1 Theoretical Question: Homonymy and Polysemy -- 2 Methodological Discussion -- 3 Illustration of the Methodology by Way of Examples -- 4 Specificity of the Present Study Vis-à-Vis Contemporary Semantic Studies -- 2 The שׁלם D Stem -- 1 To Give Back: To Reach a Balance (between Two Parties) -- 2 To Retribute: To Reach Balance (Involving Three Parties) -- 3 Retribution as Balance -- 4 Cruces Interpretum -- 3 The שׁלם G Stem -- 1 To Be Complete and To Be Finished -- 2 To Make an Alliance, To Be an Ally -- 3 Two Homonymous Verbs or One Polysemous Verb? -- 4 The שׁלם H Stem -- 1 To Make (Something) Complete / Finished -- 2 To Enter an Alliance (with Someone) -- 3 Observation on the Prepositions -- 4 Conclusion -- 5 Synthesis of the Semasiological Investigation of שׁלם -- 1 The שׁלם D Stem -- 2 The שׁלם G Stem -- 3 The שׁלם H Stem -- 4 A Unified Polysemous שׁלם -- 5 Relations between Stem-Formations -- 6 Comparison with the Semitic Cognates -- 6 Wider Perspectives -- 1 Research Results -- 2 Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of שׁלם -- 3 Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root שׁלם -- Conclusion -- 1 Semantic and Methodological Notes -- 2 Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form שָׁלוֹם‎. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and completeness form the basic semantic structure of שׁלם. Previous studies on שׁלם employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.

Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants and the Atlantic Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century / / by Yda Schreuder

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483963603321
• Autore: Schreuder Yda
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• ISBN: 9783319970615; 3319970615
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps
• Disciplina: 940.903
• Soggetti: Europe - History - 1492-; World history; Imperialism; Judaism and culture; History of Early Modern Europe; World History, Global and Transnational History; Imperialism and Colonialism; Jewish Cultural Studies
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. The Atlantic Sugar Trade: Amsterdam's Sephardic Merchants in the Seventeenth Century -- 2. The Development of the Sephardic Jewish ; Sugar Trade Network -- 3. The British Caribbean World: Barbados -- 4. Amsterdam's Dutch and Sephardic Merchants in the Atlantic Supply Trade and the Sugar Trade in the Seventeenth Century -- 5. The Mission of Menasseh Ben Israel and Cromwell's Western Design -- 6. Sephardic Merchants and the Second Barbados: Jamaica -- 7. The Atlantic Sugar Trade at the End of the Seventeenth Century.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book surveys the role of Amsterdam's Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese Nation," conducting trade from the Iberian Peninsula and Brazil. Examining the "Myth of the Dutch," the "Sephardic Moment," and the impact of the British Navigation Acts, Yda Schreuder focuses attention on Barbados and Jamaica and demonstrates how Amsterdam remained Europe's primary sugar refining center through most of the seventeenth century and how Sephardic merchants played a significant role in sustaining the sugar trade.