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BMH as body language [electronic resource]

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It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction. This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they are sufficiently numerous and contextually diverse to yield sound systematic, rather than ad hoc, conclusions as to its semantic content. Special atte

Title BMH as body language [electronic resource] : a lexical and iconographical study of the word BMH when not a reference to cultic phenomena in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew / W. Boyd Barrick.
Publisher New York : T&T Clark
Creation Date c2008
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
English
Content Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1 THE ISSUE
Chapter 2 THE COGNATE EVIDENCE
Chapter 3 THE HEBREW EVIDENCE
Chapter 4 POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS
Chapter 5 FINAL THOUGHTS
Select Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors
Series The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies
477
Extent 1 online resource (208 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010717245005171
MARC RECORDS
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