A Palimpsest: Rhetoric, Ideology, Stylistics, and Language Relating to Persian Israel |
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| Editor:
| Zvi, Ehud Ben
Edelman, Diana V.
Polak, Frank |
| Contribution by:
| Stavrakopoulou, Francesca
Guillaume, Philippe
Rom-Shiloni, Dalit
Rezetko, Robert
Macchi, Jean-Daniel
Young, Ian |
| Series title: | Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and Its Contexts Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4632-1674-0 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2009 |
| Publisher: | Gorgias Press, LLC
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $157.60 |
Book Description:
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A volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati's world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues they had in mind and the ways they came to deal with them through authoritative literature? The book includes essays on such issues as whether linguistic theories can solve literary-critical problems, on what is...
More DescriptionA volume of collected essays that explores what we can learn about the producers and readers of biblical books by looking into matters of language, rhetoric, style, and ideology. What do they teach us about these literati's world of knowledge and imagination, about the issues they had in mind and the ways they came to deal with them through authoritative literature? The book includes essays on such issues as whether linguistic theories can solve literary-critical problems, on what is "late biblical Hebrew," on parallelism and noun groups in biblical poetry, and the communicative meaning of some linguistic choices.