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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816847503321

Autore

Barrick W. Boyd <1946->

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : T&T Clark, c2008

ISBN

1-283-19988-2

9786613199881

0-567-47351-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 477

Disciplina

221.4/47

Soggetti

Bamah (The Hebrew word)

Hebrew language - Semantics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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