What Did Jesus Mean?
Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
Published on 10. May 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
528 pages
978-0-19-513733-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic theory of "universal human concepts"- concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages-and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount. Her approach results in strikingly novel interpretations of the Gospels. Written in dialogue with other biblical commentators, What Did Jesus Mean? is scholarly, rigorous, and yet accessible.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
842 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513733-0 (9780195137330)
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Anna Wierzbicka
What Did Jesus Mean?
Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
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12/2001
1st Edition
Oxford University Press
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Anna Wierzbicka
What Did Jesus Mean?
Explaining the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
Book
05/2001
Oxford University Press Inc
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