Research Catalog

Title

Figurative language in the ancient Near East / edited by M. Mindlin, M.J. Geller, J.E. Wansbrough.

Publication

London : School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1987.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Mindlin, M. (Murray), -1987
• Geller, Markham J.
• Wansbrough, J. E.

Description

xiii, 155 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Semitic languages > Figures of speech
• Middle East > Languages > Figures of speech > Congresses
• Middle East > Languages > Style > Congresses
• Semitic languages Figurative usage

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Konferenzschrift – London – 1983
• Congresses (form)
• [Actes de congrès]

Note

• Conference proceedings.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / M.J. Geller -- Pictures and Pictorial Language / Thorkild Jacobsen -- Deep-rooted Skyscrapers and Bricks: Ancient Mesopotamian Architecture and its Imaging / D.O. Edzard -- Devotion: the Languages of Religion and Love / W.G. Lambert -- 'Dying Tablets' and 'Hungry Silver': Elements of Figurative Language in Akkadian Commercial Terminology / K.R. Veenhof -- Riding Tooth: metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche, Quick and Frozen in Everyday Language / C. Wilcke -- Antonomasia: the case for Semitic 'TM / J.E. Wansbrough -- Har and Midbar: An Antithetical Pair of Biblical Motifs / S. Talmon

ISBN

0728601419 (pbk)

LCCN

gb^87041271^

OCLC

• 23869496
• SCSB-12598899

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library