| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 375 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 6
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 6.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction (S. La Porta and D. Shulman); PART ONE CREATION; 1. Creation through Hieroglyphs: The Cosmic Grammatology of Ancient Egypt (Jan Assmann); 2. KUN -- the Existence-Bestowing Word in Islamic Mysticism: A Survey of Texts on the Creative Power of Language (Sara Sviri); 3. Adam's Naming of the Animals: Naming or Creation? (Michael E. Stone); 4. Greek Distrust of Language (Margalit Finkelberg); PART TWO CULTURAL ENCODING; 5. This is no Lotus, it is a Face: Poetics as Grammar in Dandin's Investigation of the Simile (Yigal Bronner). |
| Summary |
Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Grammar, Comparative and general. |
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Language and culture.
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Language and culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
La Porta, Sergio.
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Shulman, David Dean, 1949-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007 (DLC) 2007031052 |
| ISBN |
9789047421658 (electronic book) |
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9047421655 (electronic book) |
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9789004158108 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004158103 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004158108.i-377 |
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