Essays on on the use of word play in the books of the Old Testament as well as in ancient and medieval books and works in Sumerian, Canaanite, Akkadian, Syriac, Rabbinic Hebrew, and Arabic. This gathering of essays from renown scholars gives one an appreciation of the artistry that went into the composing and editing of these great works of literature.
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well, it IS more fun than a crick in the groan ...,
By Luscher (Goyim City, Wisconsin, United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature (Hardcover)
first let me warn casual readers away : this is not for an interested person outside academia - there must be others works that will scratch this itch, but i am unaware of them (just to save you the time and trouble of asking) - unless you need a sleeping pill in book form. this would be an awful bore for such readers
the lowest form of getting published : an anthology with no text tying the loosely associated, previously published, scholarly papers together. this tome is no exception rather than allow readers to think i am dismissing the entire collection, allow me to say that there was an interesting insight into Egyptian Hieroglyphics and what the author termed a ''Three Dimensional Pun'' the limited number of ancient languages seems a bit of a drawback, given the title, but it may have been too difficult finding papers published in foreign languages ( and really, who can be bothered ? ) which could have been translated to English for inclusion into this publication sadly there is no TOC, and any book listed by a publisher without making use of Amazon's ''look inside'' feature is automatically suspect (as well as those limited to TOC and Index), and given the entrance fee to this show ? doubly so. here are the contents, listed in brief (as the publisher can't be bothered) - Egyptian - Puns and Word Play in Ancient Egyptian Mesopotamia Word Play in Sumerian Alliterative Allusions, Rebus Writing [..] More Word Play in Akkadian Poetic Texts Ominous Homophony and puns [..] in Akkadian Omens Caanan-Ugarit - Puns Ugaritic Newly Surveyed Israel-Hebrew Bible Word Play in Biblical Hebrew [..] Drinking Feasts [..] Jacob and Laban's Double Talk Word Play and [..] in the Book of Samuel Between Science and Magic [..] Function and Roots [..] Hebrew Bible Word Play in Zechariah Word Play [..] Daniel Syriac - Word Play in the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian Rabbinics - ''Creative Philology'' as a System [..] Exegesis [..] Arabic - The Names of the Blind [..] Rhetoric Medieval Hebrew - Pun and Structure in Medieval Hebrew Poetry [..] - these are merely my opinions and not statements of Fact, without Crime or Treason - you must decide for yourself what to read and what to pay for
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