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Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law (Hardcover)
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Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law (Hardcover)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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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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