Biblical Ambiguities: Metaphor, Semantics, and Divine Imagery (Brill Reference Library of Judaism)

✍ Scribed by David H. Aaron

• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 232
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Judaism
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

It is scholarly in its method. However, the conclusions are just that the Bible contains ambiguities and that some ambiguities are more ambiguous than others. Ambiguity may function as a Bible code, but God will tell us when the scrolls will be undone.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
1. Introduction: Ambiguity and Figurative Speech......Page 11
2. Distinguishing Metaphors from Non-Metaphors......Page 33
3. A Non-Binary Conceptualization of Meaning......Page 53
4. Toward a Model for Gradient Judgments......Page 79
5. Typicality Conditions and Relevance......Page 95
6. Metaphor as a Gradient Judgment......Page 111
7. Idolatry: The Most Challenging Metaphor......Page 135
8. Aniconism as a Narrowing of the Conditions-of-Relevance......Page 167
9. Conclusion......Page 203
Bibliography of Works Cited......Page 211
E......Page 225
M......Page 226
Z......Page 227
Index of Scriptural References......Page 228