Figurative Language in the Ancient Near East

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Acknowledgements......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
Pictures and Pictorial Language (The Burney Relief)*......Page 14
Deep-Rooted Skyscrapers and Bricks: Ancient Mesopotamiam Architecture and its Imagery*......Page 24
Devotion: The Languages of Religion and Love......Page 34
‘Dying Tablets’ and ‘Hungry Silver’ Elements of Figurative Language in Akkadian Commercial Terminology......Page 51
A Riding Tooth: Metaphor, Metonymy and Synecdoche, Quick and Frozen in Everyday Language......Page 82
Antonomasia : the Case for Semitic TM’......Page 106
Har and Midbār An Antithetical Pair of Biblical Motifs......Page 118
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 139
SUMERIAN WORDS......Page 147
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 160
BIBLICAL SOURCES......Page 164