Communication through language is an important area of study and has been examined by specialists from a variety of disciplines. Caird, Dean Ireland?s Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford, has written an exceptional and well-organized compilation of the best of such study, both past and present. He has provided invaluable guidance for the study and understanding of the Bible by explaining how verbal messages are formed, what they "say" in writing, and how they are to be understood. Drawing upon the results of modern linguistic and communications scholarship, and upon the still valid methods of rhetorical and exegetical study, Caird provides a synthesis for hermeneutics. Beginning with the uses and abuses of language, Caird goes on to discuss the nature and structure of meaning, the relations between Hebrew idiom and biblical thought, and the problems of translation, discussions which form the opening or "general" section of the book. The central section is entitled "metaphor," under which Caird treats literal and non-literal meanings (and valid distinctions between them), comparative language in metaphors, similes, and anthropomorphisms, concluding with a treatment of linguistic awareness. Finally, he devotes a section to language in relation to history, to myth, and to eschatology.
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George B. Caird was Dean Ireland?s Professor of Exegesis of Holy Scripture at Oxford.
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When we use words, we do not commonly pause to consider the purposes that underlie this piece of human behaviour, any more than we are conscious of the grammar of our native tongue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New Testament, Humpty Dumpty, Most High, Fourth Gospel, Antiochus Epiphanes, Jesus ben Sira, Lord Jesus, Alexander the Great, Wicked Tenants, Form Criticism, God of Israel, John the Baptist, Lord's Prayer, Micaiah ben Imlah, Wisdom of Solomon New!
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When we use words, we do not commonly pause to consider the purposes that underlie this piece of human behaviour, any more than we are conscious of the grammar of our native tongue. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Testament, New Testament, Humpty Dumpty, Most High, Fourth Gospel, Antiochus Epiphanes, Jesus ben Sira, Lord Jesus, Alexander the Great, Wicked Tenants, Form Criticism, God of Israel, John the Baptist, Lord's Prayer, Micaiah ben Imlah, Wisdom of Solomon New!
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- Oxford Fowler's Modern English Usage Dictionary by H. W. Fowler on page 144, and page 161
- Law in the New Testament by J. Duncan M. Derrett on page 25, and page 142
- Jesus the Jew (Scm Classics) by Geza Vermes on page 9, and page 138
- System of Logic by Johns Mill on page 9, and page 87
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- Words and The Word: Language, Poetics and Biblical Interpretation by Stephen Prickett on 5 pages
- Plowshares & Pruning Hooks: Rethinking the Language of Biblical Prophecy and Apocalyptic by D. Brent Sandy on 4 pages
- Portraits of God: A Biblical Theology of Holiness by Allan Coppedge on 4 pages
- Man of Sin, The: Uncovering the Truth about the Antichrist by Kim Riddlebarger on page 73, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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