A Cognitive Semantic Study of Biblical Hebrew : The Root šlm for Completeness-Balance / Andrew Chin Hei Leong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leong, Andrew Chin Hei, author.

Series:

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 104.

Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics ; 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

The Root šlm for Completeness-Balance

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Summary:

Semantic studies of the Biblical Hebrew verb שׁלם have been influenced by those of its most invoked nominal form שָׁלוֹם‎. In this volume Andrew Chin Hei Leong shows that the concepts of balance, alliance, and completeness form the basic semantic structure of שׁלם. Previous studies on שׁלם employed either historical or textual methodology, which has been dominant in biblical lexical studies. In addition to these methods, in Leong develops a systematic semantic methodology from Cognitive Semantics and Frame Semantics, to demonstrate that it is balance, rather than completeness, that is the most central concept in holding the semantic network together.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 A Survey of Previously Conducted Research

2 The Semitic Cognates of שׁלם

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 שׁלם 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 שׁלם 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 שׁלם 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 שׁלם

1 The שׁלם D Stem

2 The שׁלם G Stem

3 The שׁלם H Stem

4 A Unified Polysemous שׁלם

5 Relations between Stem-Formations

6 Comparison with the Semitic Cognates

6 Wider Perspectives

1 Research Results

2 Onomasiological Study of the Polysemy of שׁלם

3 Nominal and Adjectival Forms of the Root שׁלם

Conclusion

1 Semantic and Methodological Notes

2 Theological Issues: Retribution and Peace

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004469778

900446977X

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004469778 DOI