Oath formulas in biblical Hebrew /
"The eponymous protagonist of the biblical story of Ruth, a Moabite widow, is so desperate to follow her widowed mother-in-law back to Israel that she swears an oath. Regardless of the translation one may choose, the sense is the same: Ruth's promises to stick by Naomi's side for at l...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Ind. :
Eisenbrauns,
2011.
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Colección: | Linguistic studies in ancient West Semitic ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. The problem ; Oaths as speech acts ; The general structure of oaths ; Previous scholarship ; Plan
- The authenticating element. Raising a hand ; Invocation of witness(es) ; Swearing ; "Thus will X do to Y"
- Conditionally formulated oaths. Summary of secondary literature on conditional clause syntax ; Special study of conditional clause syntax in 1 Samuel ; oath content introduced by ʼm ; oath content introduced by ʼm-lʼ
- Oaths marked with ky. Summary of secondary literature on ky syntax ; Special study of ky syntax in 1 Samuel ; oath content introduced by ky
- Exceptions and objections. Oath content formulated in other ways ; Relationship of markers of oath content to authenticating elements ; The alleged function of ky-ʼm as an oath marker
- Conclusions
- Appendix: Other formulas in other Semitic langauges. Northwest Semitic ; Akkadian ; Classical Arabic.