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The language and imagery of the Bible / G.B. Caird.

By: Publisher: Philadelphia : Westminster Press, [1980]Copyright date: ©1980Description: viii, 280 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0664213782
  • 9780664213787
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 19
LOC classification:
  • BS537 .C33 1980
Contents:
Pt. 1: General -- The uses and abuses of language -- The meaning of meaning -- Changes of meaning -- Opacity, vagueness and ambiguity -- Hebrew idiom and Hebrew thought -- The Septuagint -- Pt. 2: Metaphor -- Literal and non-literal -- Comparative language I : simile and metaphor -- Comparative language II : special forms -- Anthropomorphism -- Linguistic awareness -- Pt. 3: History, myth and eschatology -- Language and history -- The language of myth -- The language of eschatology.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Academic Resource Center at Levitt General Stacks (LOWER Level) BS 537 .C33 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 10456

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pt. 1: General -- The uses and abuses of language -- The meaning of meaning -- Changes of meaning -- Opacity, vagueness and ambiguity -- Hebrew idiom and Hebrew thought -- The Septuagint -- Pt. 2: Metaphor -- Literal and non-literal -- Comparative language I : simile and metaphor -- Comparative language II : special forms -- Anthropomorphism -- Linguistic awareness -- Pt. 3: History, myth and eschatology -- Language and history -- The language of myth -- The language of eschatology.

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