Noegel, “Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts

NEW BOOK FROM SBL PRESS:

“Wordplay” in Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Scott B. Noegel

$44.80 – $58.80
Series: Ancient Near East Monographs
Volume: 26

Publisher: SBL Press
Publication Date: 2020
ISBN: 9781628372939

Description

This book from Scott B. Noegel offers a comparative, in-depth study of “wordplay” in ancient Near Eastern texts. Noegel establishes comprehensive taxonomies for the many kinds of devices that scholars label as wordplay and for their proposed functions. The consistent terminology proposed offers students and scholars of Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ugaritic, Hebrew, and Aramaic a useful template for documenting and understanding the devices they discover and for comparing them across languages for a rich interdisciplinary dialogue.

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