Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical LawA&C Black, 01/11/2000 - 338 من الصفحات This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning', at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These images may come from either social experience or cultural narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and involving such notions as space and time, also need to be taken into account. For the early biblical period, at least, conceptions of law based upon modern models need to be replaced by the notion of 'wisdom-laws'. Amongst the issues addressed in the course of the argument are the structure of the Decalogue, the role in the law of (Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic punishment'. |
المحتوى
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Chapter 2 SPEECH ACTS AND SPEECH BEHAVIOUR | 42 |
Chapter 3 WISDOMLAWS | 70 |
Chapter 4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL DRAFTING | 93 |
Chapter 5 THE WRITTEN MEDIA OF LAW | 114 |
Chapter 6 THE TEMPORALITY OF THE LAW | 144 |
Chapter 7 POSTULATES AND VALUES | 171 |
Chapter 8 LAWS INTERNAL RECOGNITION | 208 |
Chapter 9 COVENANT RENEWAL AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE | 231 |
Chapter 10 TALION | 271 |
Bibliography | 298 |
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طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law <span dir=ltr>Bernard S. Jackson</span> معاينة محدودة - 2000 |
Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law <span dir=ltr>Bernard S. Jackson</span> لا تتوفر معاينة - 2000 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Abraham adjudication ancient Near Eastern apodictic appear applied argued argument behaviour berit Bible biblical law chiasmus chok Chron claim clauses cognitive command conception context Covenant Code covenantal Daube debt-slave debt-slavery Decalogue Deut Deuteronomy dispute distinction divine Egypt Eshnunna example Exod Exodus explicit expressed fact formula function further Jackson God's Greenberg Greimassian Hebrew historical homicide infra interpretation Israel Israelite Jewish Josh Joshua judges king land Leviticus literal literary LORD matter meaning Mishneh Torah Mishpatim Moses Mount Ebal narrative nefesh Nezikin Niditch norm oral original particular patriarchal Pentateuch Piaget postulates present priestly principle promise protasis punishment reading reference reflect regarded relationship ritual decalogue rules sefer semantic semiotic sense Shechem slave social sources speech act stage status stone story structure suggest šumma supra tachat talion theory tion Torah tradition Watts Weinfeld Whitelam words writing written yumat Zedekiah