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Title Figurative language in the ancient Near East / edited by M. Mindlin, M.J. Geller, J.E. Wansbrough
Published London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1987

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 155 pages) : illustrations
Contents Book Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Acknowledgements; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; Introduction; Pictures and Pictorial Language (The Burney Relief)*; Deep-Rooted Skyscrapers and Bricks: Ancient Mesopotamiam Architecture and its Imagery*; Devotion: The Languages of Religion and Love; 'Dying Tablets' and 'Hungry Silver' Elements of Figurative Language in Akkadian Commercial Terminology; A Riding Tooth: Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche, Quick and Frozen in Everyday Language; Antonomasia : the Case for Semitic TM'; Har and Midbar An Antithetical Pair of Biblical Motifs; SUBJECT INDEX
SUMERIAN WORDSPRIMARY SOURCES; BIBLICAL SOURCES
Summary A group of scholars from Britain, Holland, Germany, and Israel met at the WarburgInstitute and the School of Oriental and African Studies in November 1983, to discuss theuse of figurative language in Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, and biblical Hebrewliterature. The papers were presented in memory of Henri Frankfort, and consequentlyalso took into account figurative expression in ancient art and architecture. The originalimpetus for the colloquium came from Thorkild Jacobsen's extended visit to London asguest of the British Academy, and all of the participants came to honour both Frankfort'smemo
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Semitic languages -- Figures of speech
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY -- Arabic.
Form Electronic book
Author Geller, Markham J
Wansbrough, John E
Mindlin, M. (Murray), -1987.
ISBN 0203984986
9780203984987
9786610243679
6610243670