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Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament

by James Barr

  • Paperback
  • 366 pages
  • Publisher: SCM Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

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For scholars and students of Biblical languages

Clarifies complex Hebrew terms using related languages

You will gain deeper insights into Old Testament texts

This book explores language connections to enhance understanding of the Old Testament.

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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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  • Title

    Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament

  • Author

    James Barr

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    SCM Press

  • Published

    November 2012

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    427g

  • Page Count

    366

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780334019541

  • ISBN-10

    0334019540

  • Eden Code

    1926606

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