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Media divina : die Medienrevolution des Monotheismus und die Wiederkehr der Bilder
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ISBN: 9783451397462 3451397463 Year: 2022 Publisher: Freiburg im Breisgau Verlag Herder


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The poetics of grammar and the metaphysics of sound and sign
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ISBN: 1281926485 9786611926489 9047421655 9789047421658 9789004158108 9004158103 9781281926487 6611926488 Year: 2007 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book examines the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos. Individual essays discuss how many of the great civilizations provide cognitive maps that emerge from a metaphysical linguistics in which sounds, syllables and other signs form the constructive elements of reality. The essays address cross-cultural issues such as: Why does grammar serve as a template in these cultures? How are such templates culturally contoured? To what end are they applied — id est, what can one do with grammar — , and how does it work upon the world? The book is divided into three sections that deal with the metaphysics of linguistic creation; practices of encoding and decoding as a means of deciphering reality; and language in the widest sense as a medium for self- and cultural transformation. Contributors include: Jan Assman, Sara Sviri, Michael Stone, M. Finkelberg, Yigal Bronner, Martin Kern, Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Dan Martin, Jonathan Garb, Tom Hunter, David Shulman, and Sergio La Porta.


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The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment
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ISSN: 01679732 ISBN: 9789004168039 128306104X 9786613061041 904743367X 9789047433675 9004168036 Year: 2008 Volume: 128 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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This book aims to contextualize early Christian rhetoric about foul language by asking such questions as: Where was foul language encountered? What were the conventional arguments for avoiding (or for using) obscene words? How would the avoidance of such speech have been interpreted by others? A careful examination of the ancient uses of and discourse about foul language illuminates the moral logic implicit in various Jewish and Christian texts (e.g. Sirach, Colossians, Ephesians, the Didache, and the writings of Clement of Alexandria). Although the Christians of the first two centuries were consistently opposed to foul language, they had a variety of reasons for their moral stance, and they held different views about what role speech should play in forming their identity as a 'holy people.'

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