Comparative philology and the text of the Old Testament

Barr, James

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Author
Barr, James
Publish Date
12/31/1968
Book Type
Hardcover
Publisher Name
OXFORD
Number of Pages
354
ISBN-10
0198266189
ISBN-13
9780198266181
SKU
9780198266181

Description

This book applies, in a more specialist area, a similar treatment to that used by Professor Barr in The Semantics of Biblical Language, and like the earlier volume criticizes much of previous scholarship. In recent Old Testament studies, increasing reliance has been placed on the resources of languages other than Hebrew itself -Arabic, Aramaic, Accadian and Ugaritic. Scholars have used these languages as a source from which the meaning of unusual Hebrew words might be deduced. Professor Barr discusses the principles involved in this process. He considers such questions as the degree of coincidence in the vocabularies of cognate languages, the extent of homonymy in Hebrew, the history of the transmission of meanings in Hebrew and the value of the ancient translations.