TY  - BOOK
AU  - Noll, Sonja
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020//
TI  - semantics of silence in biblical Hebrew
T3  - Studies in Semitic languages and linguistics volume 100
PB  - Brill
PB  - University of Oxford
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Hebrew language
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Silence in the Bible
AB  - "In The Semantics of Silence in Biblical Hebrew, Sonja Noll explores the many words in biblical Hebrew that refer to being silent, investigating how they are used in biblical texts, Dead Sea Scrolls, and Ben Sira. She also examines the tradition of interpretation for these words in the early versions (Septuagint, Vulgate, Targum, Peshitta), modern translations, and standard dictionaries, revealing that meanings are not always straightforward and that additional work is needed in biblical semantics and lexicography. The traditional approach to comparative Semitics, with its over-simplistic assumption of semantic equivalence in cognates, is also challenged. The surprising conclusion of the work is that there is no single concept of silence in the biblical world; rather, it spans multiple semantic fields"--
SN  - 9789004414648
UR  - https://brill.com/abstract/title/10.1163/9789004414648
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004414648
DO  - 10.1163/9789004414648
LA  - English
N1  - by Sonja Noll
ID  - 1728095026
ER  -