The Semantics of Fire in the Targumim
Aramaic has two words for fire: nūr and ʾiššā. Utilizing the targumim as a corpus and qualia roles for classification, this paper presents a clearer understanding of the lexical meaning for the two words. In the earliest targumim, ʾiššā is a natural kind governed by a sacred agent. The word nūr, ho...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2013
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Aramaic studies
Année: 2013, Volume: 11, Numéro: 2, Pages: 149-166 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Araméen
/ Source
/ Araméen
/ Targum
/ esha
/ Sémitistique
/ Feu
/ Sémantique
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| RelBib Classification: | TC Époque pré-chrétienne |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Aramaic
Targum
semantics
fire
qualia
nūr
ʾiššā
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | Aramaic has two words for fire: nūr and ʾiššā. Utilizing the targumim as a corpus and qualia roles for classification, this paper presents a clearer understanding of the lexical meaning for the two words. In the earliest targumim, ʾiššā is a natural kind governed by a sacred agent. The word nūr, however, is an artifactual kind with a profane agent and an explicit purpose. Since the two words share the same Formal Role (same physical substance), there is a degree of overlap which led at first to their interchangeability and later to the predominance of nūr. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5227 |
| Contient: | In: Aramaic studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/17455227-13110204 |