Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament - Softcover

Barr, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0334019540 ISBN 13: 9780334019541

Verlag: SCM Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

This book applies, in a more specialist area, a similar treatment to that used by Professor Barr in The Semantics of Biblical Language, and like the earlier volume criticizes much of previous scholarship. In recent Old Testament studies, increasing reliance has been placed on the resources of languages other than Hebrew itself -Arabic, Aramaic, Accadian and Ugaritic. Scholars have used these languages as a source from which the meaning of unusual Hebrew words might be deduced. Professor Barr discusses the principles involved in this process. He considers such questions as the degree of coincidence in the vocabularies of cognate languages, the extent of homonymy in Hebrew, the history of the transmission of meanings in Hebrew and the value of the ancient translations.

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James Barr was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, where he taught for ten years. His illustrious teaching career has also included professorships at Edinburgh University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Manchester University, and Oxford University. He has held visiting professorships and delivered major lecture series in Europe, the United States, Africa, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand, and was longtime editor of the Journal of Semitic Studies.

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• Verlag: SCM Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0334019540
• ISBN 13: 9780334019541
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 366
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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