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Bibliographic Short Review of: Eng, Milton, The Days of our Years: A Lexical Semantic Study Of The Life Cycle In Biblical Israel. (LHBOTS, 464; New York/London: T & T Clark International, 2011

Bigger, Stephen (2012) Bibliographic Short Review of: Eng, Milton, The Days of our Years: A Lexical Semantic Study Of The Life Cycle In Biblical Israel. (LHBOTS, 464; New York/London: T & T Clark International, 2011. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 36 (5). p. 215. ISSN Print: 0309-0892 Online: 1476-6728

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This is a lexical study of primarily male terms for the young, mature and elderly. Female terms are subordinated within an androcentric book structure. The first chapter deals with lexicography and semantics (“the meaning of words”). This study focuses on the range of potential meanings for particular terms such as boy, child, young man, man and old man, set within the context of other semantically related terms. Terms are considered only when the context is age-related. Chapter 2 briefly sets the life cycle (including life expectancy) in the context of the ancient near east, and less understandably Greece. Chapter 3 studies terms for the young, by which is meant pre-maturity, focusing particularly on na‘ar, yeled and taph. Chapter 4 concentrates on terms for mature men, with semantic studies of ‘ish, ‘adam and geber. Chapter 5, on the aged, covers zaqen and a range of related terms and phrases. His general conclusions support to use of modern linguistics in textual study, and in particular semantic profiles and semantic domains, calling for these to be included in the methodologies of new lexicons. There is much of interest in the detail of this book; but this reviewer would have liked to see a better gender balance, and less of the superficial comparisons with other unconnected socio-historical contexts and periods, from the stone age to the Industrial Revolution.

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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords: Old Testament, society, age-range studies
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BM Judaism
B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BS The Bible
Divisions: College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Education
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Depositing User: Stephen Bigger
Date Deposited: 01 Nov 2011 14:25
Last Modified: 17 Jun 2020 16:55
URI: https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/1496

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