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THE LEXICAL FIELD OF THE SUBSTANTIVES OF WORD I...

Jewish Monotheism is built on a fundamental assumption: God has spoken to the Jews and
commanded them to follow His law. But what exactly are - God's words?This monograph examines
the notion of word in Ancient Judaism from the Bible to the Mishnah - from Scripture to this
prominent Hebrew law handbook redacted at the beginning of 3rd century c.e. It explores the
notion of human and divine word and its transformation in the narrative  legal  poetical  and
theological pieces of Jewish literature. It pays particular attention to the semantic
evolutions of all those substantives that designate a word or any other relevant element of
speech that both humans and God use to communicate with each other.The monograph offers an
analysis of the word field of the substantives of word from a double perspective - a linguistic
and a cultural one. On the one hand it relies on Eugenio Coseriu's semantics and on the
disseminated notion of Hebrew functional languages. It starts from the presupposition that
every term has its own meaning only due to its connection with other terms - called lexical
field. It also argues that Hebrew can be divided into several functional languages that have
different social and communicative functions: a narrative  legal  poetical  and performative
one. On the other hand  the monograph also takes into account the reception history of
Scripture through its main ancient translations into Greek  Aramaic  and Syriac. In doing so 
the monograph examines the word field of the substantives of word also from a cultural
perspective and shows the evolution of this fundamental portion of Jewish literature.

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