
Words become Worlds
Semantic Studies of Genesis 1-11
Ellen van Wolde(Author)
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 1. May 1994
Book
Leather / fine binding
XII, 218 pages
978-90-04-09887-9 (ISBN)
Description
By carefully analyzing the text-semantic features of the texts of Genesis 1-11, this book offers a quite new perspective on the primaeval history. The first part of the book examines Genesis 1-11, which is usually read as a creation story concerning the human being in relation to God, in which the human being falls from bad to worse. In these text-semantic studies it is shown that such is not the case, especially in the rather exciting analysis of the story of the Tower of Babel. In the second part of the book the methodological framework of these text-semantic studies is presented.
Reviews / Votes
'...much stimulating and convincing exegesis...'J.A. Emerton, Society for Old Testament Study, 1995
'Van Wolde has produced a provocative and interesting study.'
Richard S. Hess, Themelios, 1996.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-09887-9 (9789004098879)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Ellen van Wolde, Th.D. (1989) in Biblical Studies, University of Nijmegen, is Professor of Old Testament Exegesis and Hebrew at the Tilburg University. She has published on Genesis, Job and Ruth, and on subjects of methodology and semiotics.