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Autore |
Barrick W. Boyd <1946-> |
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Titolo |
BMH as body language [[electronic resource] ] : a lexical and iconographical study of the word BMH when not a reference to cultic phenomena in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew / / W. Boyd Barrick |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : T&T Clark, c2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-19988-2 |
9786613199881 |
0-567-47351-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 477 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bamah (The Hebrew word) |
Hebrew language - Semantics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE ISSUE; Chapter 2 THE COGNATE EVIDENCE; Chapter 3 THE HEBREW EVIDENCE; Chapter 4 POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS; Chapter 5 FINAL THOUGHTS; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction. This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they are sufficiently numerous and contextually diverse to yield sound systematic, rather than ad hoc, conclusions as to its semantic content. Special atte |
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