A Cognitive Semantic Study of Biblical Hebrew

The Root Slm for Completeness-Balance
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46975-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 104, 327 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 699 g

Reihe: Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leong, Andrew Chin Hei

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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-à-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

Über Autor(innen)

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.