BMH as body language : a lexical and iconographical study of the word BMH when not a reference to cultic phenomena in biblical and post-biblical Hebrew / W. Boyd Barrick
Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 THE ISSUE; Chapter 2 THE COGNATE EVIDENCE; Chapter 3 THE HEBREW EVIDENCE; Chapter 4 POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS; Chapter 5 FINAL THOUGHTS; Select Bibliography; Index of References; Index of Authors
Summary
It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction.€This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense.€Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they are sufficiently numerous and contextually diverse to yield sound systematic, rather than ad hoc, conclusions as to its semantic content. & nb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-174) and indexes
