From Linguistics to Hermeneutics. A Functional and Cognitive Approach to Job 12-14

Linguistics and hermeneutics are often regarded as two mutually exclusive scholarly disciplines. Recent decades have witnessed the rise, however, of linguistic approaches that take meaning back to the heart of their inquiry and hence can be fruitful to textual interpretation. This book applies the insights of two of these approaches, viz. functional grammar and cognitive semantics, to the study of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on Job 12-14. The result is two-fold. The study offers a detailed linguistic analysis of this text, providing many new insights in the linguistic peculiarities of this text and of Biblical Hebrew in general, and it proposes a fresh exegetical reading of Job’s longest and central speech in the book.

ISBN:978 90 04 18835 8

Jaar van publicatie:2011