Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law PDF
by Bernard S. Jackson
Part of the The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies series
Description
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'.
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- Pages:338 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/11/2000
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:338 pages
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:01/11/2000
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- ISBN:9780567578693
