Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical LawA&C Black, 2000 M11 1 - 338 páginas 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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... formula ? Should we then seek the socially understood use of the formula , rather than the ' literal mean- ing ' ? And would not the socially understood use of the formula best be sought in evidence derived from biblical society ...
... formula ? Should we then seek the socially understood use of the formula , rather than the ' literal mean- ing ' ? And would not the socially understood use of the formula best be sought in evidence derived from biblical society ...
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... formula hineh might be compared with the English ' hereby ' , and might at the same time suggest use in an oral setting . Direct access to the forms of biblical speech acts is available , of course , only where the text purports to ...
... formula hineh might be compared with the English ' hereby ' , and might at the same time suggest use in an oral setting . Direct access to the forms of biblical speech acts is available , of course , only where the text purports to ...
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... formula ( oratio directa ) , nor does it refer to the performance of a speech act , as in the case of the naming of Moses . But reference to the speech act is , I maintain , present , if we take the total narrative context into account ...
... formula ( oratio directa ) , nor does it refer to the performance of a speech act , as in the case of the naming of Moses . But reference to the speech act is , I maintain , present , if we take the total narrative context into account ...
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... formula , a ' divine oral signature " , and therefore that the first com- mandment is ' You shall have no other gods ... formula of the Decalogue . The only other nar- rative expansion of the formula in Leviticus is in 20.24 : ' I am the ...
... formula , a ' divine oral signature " , and therefore that the first com- mandment is ' You shall have no other gods ... formula of the Decalogue . The only other nar- rative expansion of the formula in Leviticus is in 20.24 : ' I am the ...
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... formula . Alt's third form was that of curses : arur . Here too , we do not have to search far in the biblical narratives for a domestic setting : not only curs- ing in reaction to domestic discipline ( Prov . 20.20 [ supra ] : cf ...
... formula . Alt's third form was that of curses : arur . Here too , we do not have to search far in the biblical narratives for a domestic setting : not only curs- ing in reaction to domestic discipline ( Prov . 20.20 [ supra ] : cf ...
Contenido
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Chapter 4 THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGAL DRAFTING | 93 |
Chapter 5 THE WRITTEN MEDIA OF LAW | 114 |
Chapter 6 THE TEMPORALITY OF THE LAW | 144 |
Chapter 7 POSTULATES AND VALUES | 171 |
Chapter 8 LAWS INTERNAL RECOGNITION | 208 |
Chapter 9 COVENANT RENEWAL AND NARRATIVE STRUCTURE | 231 |
Chapter 10 TALION | 271 |
Bibliography | 298 |
Index of References | 318 |
Index of Authors | 328 |
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Página 71 - Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work...
Página 143 - ... all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book.
Página 70 - You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is on earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Página 246 - And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey...
Página 142 - And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments : and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
Página 236 - And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face, in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of...