The Word 'Hesed' in the Hebrew Bible

This impressive semantic study, with a useful glossary of special and technical terms, develops an original methodology, bringing new insights into the meaning of a much-discussed word. Working with an immense amount of data, obtained by examining every occurrence in the Hebrew Bible of 35 field elements, the author achieves a new degree of semantic refinement based on meticulous quantitative analysis of distribution, collocations, parallels and syntagms. Sense-relations are formulated between hesed and other related terms. This study provides much material for a better understanding of this crucial term for Hebrew thought, and also makes an important theoretical contribution to Hebrew lexicography.>

Product details

• Authors: Gordon R Clark, Gordon R. Clark, Clark Gordon R.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9781474231763
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-3176-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Biblical Studies; Bloomsbury Academic Collection; Bloomsbury Academic Collections: Biblical Studies; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Hebräisch, Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte, Semantik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Christianity, Hebrew, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Old Testaments