Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature

by Scott Noegel (Editor)

Overview

Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; includes such topics as: alliterative allusions, rebus writing, ominous homophony, portentous puns, and paronomasia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781883053499
Publisher:	Eisenbrauns
Publication date:	06/30/2000
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

Table of Contents

EGYPT— Puns and Word Play in Ancient Egyptian - Antonio Loprieno
MESOPOTAMIA— Word Play in Sumerian Literature - Jacob Klein — Yitschak Sefati
CANAAN-UGARIT— Puns Ugaritic Newly Surveyed - Wilfred G. E. Watson
ISRAEL — BIBLE—Word Play in Biblical Hebrew: An Eclectic Collection - Gary A. Rendsburg
SYRIAC— Word Play in the Hymns of Ephrem the Syrian - Alphons S. Rodrigues Pereira
RABBINICS— "Creative Philology" as a System of Biblical and Talmudic Exegesis: Creating Midrashic Interpretations from Multi-Meaning Words in the Midrash and the Zohar - Zvi Malachi
ARABIC— The Names of the Blind in al-afadî: Towards an Onomastic Rhetoric - Fedwa Malti-Douglas
MEDIEVAL HEBREW— Pun and Structure in Medieval Hebrew Poetry: The Case of Shmuel Hanagid - David S. Segal