The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience
This article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure—even of seemingly abstract concepts—is grounded in real-worl...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2014
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Journal of ancient Near Eastern religions
Year: 2014, Volume: 14, Issue: 1, Pages: 87-113 |
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Purity
impurity
pollution
Hittite
Akkadian
Sumerian
Biblical Hebrew
semantics
cognitive linguistics
radiance
embodiment
social contexts
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