Rejoice, dear Zion!
Subtitle: Hebrew construct phrases with "daughter" and "virgin" as nomen regens
By: Magnar Kartveit
Series: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- volume 447; Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft -- 447.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH; de Gruyter; Walter de Gruyter Inc.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9783110308945; 9783110309157
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Bible; Noun; Tochter Zion; Tochter; Bibel; Jungfräulichkeit; Language, style; Daughters; Wortfeld; Hebrew language; Old Testament; Linguistic usage; Hebräisch; Frau; 18.76 old Hebrew language and/or literature; 11.41 study and interpretation of the Old Testament; Women in the Bible; Zion (symbool)
Description: "Discussions about the phrase "Daughter of Zion" have not come to rest. The present book is a study of this and similar phrases from a linguistic point of view. Genitive as a category in Semitic grammar is treated in a separate chapter, and metaphor and irony are brought into the discussion. The author proposes new understandings and translations of the phrases ..."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193) and index.
Table of contents: title: Signs of Zion; title: Does "Daughter of Zion" refer to a collective or an individual?; title: "Daughter (of) Zion" in recent research; title: The genitive and the construct state in Semitic languages; title: Semantic analysis of the construct phrases with "daughter" and/or "virgin"; title: Can nomen regens in biblical Hebrew be a metaphor applied (in apposition?) to nomen rectum?; title: Dear Zion.