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

• Autore: Barrick W. Boyd <1946->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : T&T Clark, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Disciplina: 221.4/47
• Soggetto topico: Bamah (The Hebrew word); Hebrew language - Semantics
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: BMH as body language
• ISBN: 1-283-19988-2; 9786613199881; 0-567-47351-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910816847503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; ; 477.