Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew
Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew

Author: Stephen Shead

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 406

ISBN-13: 9004222189

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Since James Barr’s work in the 1960s, the challenge for Hebrew scholars has been to continue to apply the insights of linguistic semantics to the study of biblical Hebrew. This book begins by describing a range of approaches to semantic and grammatical analysis, including structural semantics, cognitive linguistics and cognitive metaphors, frame semantics, and William Croft’s Radical Construction Grammar. It then seeks to integrate these, formulating a dynamic approach to lexical semantic analysis based on conceptual frames, using corpus annotation. The model is applied to biblical Hebrew in a detailed study of a family of words related to “exploring,” “searching,” and “seeking.” The results demonstrate the value and potential of cognitive, frame-based approaches to biblical Hebrew lexicology.

Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew
Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew

Author: Stephen Shead

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-09-09

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 9004188398

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Drawing on various modern linguistic models, including cognitive linguistics, frame semantics, and construction grammar, this book presents a new, integrated approach to lexical semantic analysis of biblical Hebrew, applying it in a detailed study of words related to “exploring.”

The Semantics of Glory
The Semantics of Glory

Author: Marilyn Burton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-05-08

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 9004342176

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Despite its centrality in mainstream linguistics, cognitive semantics has only recently begun to establish a foothold in biblical studies, largely due to the challenges inherent in applying such a methodology to ancient languages. The Semantics of Glory addresses these challenges by offering a new, practical model for a cognitive semantic approach to Classical Hebrew, demonstrated through an exploration of the Hebrew semantic domain of glory. The concept of ‘glory’ is one of the most significant themes in the Hebrew Bible, lying at the heart of God’s self-disclosure in biblical revelation. This study provides the most comprehensive examination of the domain to date, mapping out its intricacies and providing a framework for its exegesis.

Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel
Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel

Author: Kurtis Peters

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9004325980

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In Hebrew Lexical Semantics and Daily Life in Ancient Israel, Kurtis Peters hitches the world of Biblical Studies to that of modern linguistic research. Often the insights of linguistics do not appear in the study of Biblical Hebrew, and if they do, the theory remains esoteric. Peters finds a way to maintain linguistic integrity and yet simplify cognitive linguistic methods to provide non-specialists an access point. By employing a cognitive approach one can coordinate the world of the biblical text with the world of its surroundings. The language of cooking affords such a possibility – Peters evaluates not only the words or lexemes related to cooking in the Hebrew Bible, but also the world of cooking as excavated by archaeology.

The Semantic Field of Cutting Tools in Biblical Hebrew
The Semantic Field of Cutting Tools in Biblical Hebrew

Author: Aaron Koller

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2023-09-29

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1666787302

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This volume is concerned with field of cutting tools in Biblical Hebrew texts and deals with the interface of philogical, semantic, and archeological evidence.

Semantics and ‘Spirit’
Semantics and ‘Spirit’

Author: Joel A. J. Atwood

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004525394

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This work provides a new, integrated approach to analysing the meaning and use of complex nouns in the Hebrew Bible, focussed on anthropological uses of the word, רוח.

Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic
Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic

Author: Benjamin J. Noonan

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-18

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0310596017

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Advances in the Study of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic by Benjamin J. Noonan examines issues of interest in the current world of Biblical Hebrew and Aramaic scholarship and their impact on understanding the Old Testament; it provides an accessible introduction for students, pastors, professors, and commentators to understand these important issues.

Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek
Biblical Lexicology: Hebrew and Greek

Author: Eberhard Bons

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 311038311X

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Lexicography, together with grammatical studies and textual criticism, forms the basis of biblical exegesis. Recent decades have seen much progress in this field, yet increasing specialization also tends to have the paradoxical effect of turning exegesis into an independent discipline, while leaving lexicography to the experts. The present volume seeks to renew and intensify the exchange between the study of words and the study of texts. This is done in reference to both the Hebrew source text and the earliest Greek translation, the Septuagint. Questions addressed in the contributions to this volume are how linguistic meaning is effected, how it relates to words, and how words may be translated into another language, in Antiquity and today. Etymology, semantic fields, syntagmatic relations, word history, neologisms and other subthemes are discussed. The main current and prospective projects of biblical lexicology or lexicography are presented, thus giving an idea of the state of the art. Some of the papers also open up wider perspectives of interpretation.

Evil in Genesis
Evil in Genesis

Author: Ingrid Faro

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2021-02-17

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1683594525

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The genesis of evil. The book of Genesis recites the beginnings of the cosmos and its inhabitants. It also reveals the beginning of evil. Before long, evil infests God's good creation. From there, good and evil coexist and drive the plot of Genesis. In Evil in Genesis, Ingrid Faro uncovers how the Bible's first book presents the meaning of evil. Faro conducts a thorough examination of evil on lexical, exegetical, conceptual, and theological levels. This focused analysis allows the Hebrew terminology to be nuanced and permits Genesis' own distinct voice to be heard. Genesis presents evil as the taking of something good and twisting it for one's own purposes rather than enjoying it how God intended. Faro illuminates the perspective of Genesis on a range of themes, including humanity's participation in evil, evil's consequences, and God's responses to evil.

New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew
New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew

Author: Aaron D. Hornkohl

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13: 1800641664

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Most of the papers in this volume originated as presentations at the conference Biblical Hebrew and Rabbinic Hebrew: New Perspectives in Philology and Linguistics, which was held at the University of Cambridge, 8–10th July, 2019. The aim of the conference was to build bridges between various strands of research in the field of Hebrew language studies that rarely meet, namely philologists working on Biblical Hebrew, philologists working on Rabbinic Hebrew and theoretical linguists. This volume is the published outcome of this initiative. It contains peer-reviewed papers in the fields of Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew that advance the field by the philological investigation of primary sources and the application of cutting-edge linguistic theory. These include contributions by established scholars and by students and early career researchers.