A Cognitive Semantic Study of Biblical Hebrew
The Root slm for Completeness-Balance
Published on 16. September 2021
Book
Hardback
343 pages
978-90-04-46975-4 (ISBN)
Description
Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb ???? have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form ????????. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and completeness form the basic semantic structure of ????.
Previous studies on ???? employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.
Previous studies on ???? employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
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Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
653 gr
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978-90-04-46975-4 (9789004469754)
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Andrew Chin Hei Leong, Ph.D. (2019), K.U. Leuven, Belgium, is Assistant Professor at the University of Saint Joseph, Macau. He has published on Postcolonial Biblical Hermeneutics and on Comparative Studies of Ancient Chinese Literature and O.T.
Content
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
?1?A Survey of Previously Conducted Research
?2?The Semitic Cognates of ???
?3?Research Question
?4?Limitations of Our Research
?5?Outline of the Book
1 Methodology
?1?Theoretical Question: Homonymy and Polysemy
?2?Methodological Discussion
?3?Illustration of the Methodology by Way of Examples
?4?Specificity of the Present Study Vis-a-Vis Contemporary Semantic Studies
2 The ??? D Stem
?1?To Give Back: To Reach a Balance (between Two Parties)
?2?To Retribute: To Reach Balance (Involving Three Parties)
?3?Retribution as Balance
?4?Cruces Interpretum
3 The ??? G Stem
?1?To Be Complete and To Be Finished
?2?To Make an Alliance, To Be an Ally
?3?Two Homonymous Verbs or One Polysemous Verb?
4 The ??? H Stem
?1?To Make (Something) Complete / Finished
?2?To Enter an Alliance (with Someone)
?3?Observation on the Prepositions
?4?Conclusion
5 Synthesis of the Semasiological Investigation of ???
?1?The ??? D Stem
?2?The ??? G Stem
?3?The ??? H Stem
?4?A Unified Polysemous ???
?5?Relations between Stem-Formations
?6?Comparison with the Semitic Cognates
6 Wider Perspectives
?1?Research Results
?2?Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of ???
?3?Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root ???
Conclusion
?1?Semantic and Methodological Notes
?2?Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace
Bibliography
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
?1?A Survey of Previously Conducted Research
?2?The Semitic Cognates of ???
?3?Research Question
?4?Limitations of Our Research
?5?Outline of the Book
1 Methodology
?1?Theoretical Question: Homonymy and Polysemy
?2?Methodological Discussion
?3?Illustration of the Methodology by Way of Examples
?4?Specificity of the Present Study Vis-a-Vis Contemporary Semantic Studies
2 The ??? D Stem
?1?To Give Back: To Reach a Balance (between Two Parties)
?2?To Retribute: To Reach Balance (Involving Three Parties)
?3?Retribution as Balance
?4?Cruces Interpretum
3 The ??? G Stem
?1?To Be Complete and To Be Finished
?2?To Make an Alliance, To Be an Ally
?3?Two Homonymous Verbs or One Polysemous Verb?
4 The ??? H Stem
?1?To Make (Something) Complete / Finished
?2?To Enter an Alliance (with Someone)
?3?Observation on the Prepositions
?4?Conclusion
5 Synthesis of the Semasiological Investigation of ???
?1?The ??? D Stem
?2?The ??? G Stem
?3?The ??? H Stem
?4?A Unified Polysemous ???
?5?Relations between Stem-Formations
?6?Comparison with the Semitic Cognates
6 Wider Perspectives
?1?Research Results
?2?Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of ???
?3?Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root ???
Conclusion
?1?Semantic and Methodological Notes
?2?Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace
Bibliography
Index