BMH as body language : a lexical and iconographical study of the word BMH when not a reference to cultic phenomena in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew / W. Boyd Barrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrick, W. Boyd, 1946-

Series:

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 477.

The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 477

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Language, style.

Bible.

Bamah (The Hebrew word).

Hebrew language--Semantics.

Hebrew language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : T&T Clark, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction. This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they are sufficiently numerous and contextually diverse to yield sound systematic, rather than ad hoc, conclusions as to its semantic content. Special atte

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE ISSUE; Chapter 2 THE COGNATE EVIDENCE; Chapter 3 THE HEBREW EVIDENCE; Chapter 4 POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS; Chapter 5 FINAL THOUGHTS; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613199881

9781283199889

1283199882

9780567473516

0567473511

OCLC:

741690123