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""To Teach"" in Ancient Israel [electronic resource] : A Cognitive Linguistic Study of a Biblical Hebrew Lexical Set.

By: Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche WissenschaftPublication details: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)ISBN:
  • 9783110335781 (electronic bk.)
  • 3110335786 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: ""To Teach"" in Ancient Israel : A Cognitive Linguistic Study of a Biblical Hebrew Lexical SetDDC classification:
  • 230
LOC classification:
  • LA47 .W53 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Previous Related Studies; 1.2.1 Human Education; 1.2.2 Divine Education; 1.2.3 Human and Divine Education; 1.2.4 Semantic Analysis; 1.3 Thesis; 1.4 Methodology; 1.4.1 Corpus; 1.4.2 Textual Constraints of Study; 1.4.3 Cognitive Semantics; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Macro-Level Analysis; 2.2.1 A Starting Place: The Universal Concept of Teaching; 2.2.2 The Lexical Set: Constraints, Folk Taxonomies, and Basic Level Items; 2.3 Micro-Level Analysis
Summary: Numerous studies have sought to understand the nature ofeducation and the extent of literacy in ancient Israel, but none has asked what the ancient Israelites thought about teaching. This study is the first to ask how they conceived of the teaching process. It furthers our understanding of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching, and provides a model for semantic studies of ancient texts grounded in cognitive linguistic theory.
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Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Previous Related Studies; 1.2.1 Human Education; 1.2.2 Divine Education; 1.2.3 Human and Divine Education; 1.2.4 Semantic Analysis; 1.3 Thesis; 1.4 Methodology; 1.4.1 Corpus; 1.4.2 Textual Constraints of Study; 1.4.3 Cognitive Semantics; 1.5 Conclusion; 2 Methodology; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Macro-Level Analysis; 2.2.1 A Starting Place: The Universal Concept of Teaching; 2.2.2 The Lexical Set: Constraints, Folk Taxonomies, and Basic Level Items; 2.3 Micro-Level Analysis

Numerous studies have sought to understand the nature ofeducation and the extent of literacy in ancient Israel, but none has asked what the ancient Israelites thought about teaching. This study is the first to ask how they conceived of the teaching process. It furthers our understanding of the ancient Israelites' concept of teaching, and provides a model for semantic studies of ancient texts grounded in cognitive linguistic theory.

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