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Summary:

"Leviticus 17-26, an ancient law text known as the Holiness Code, prescribes how particular persons are to behave in concrete, everyday situations. The addressees of the law text must revere their parents, respect the elderly, fear God, take care of their fellow, provide for the sojourner, and so on. The sojourner has his own obligations, as do the priests. Even God is said to behave in various ways towards various persons. Thus, the law text forms an intricate web of persons and interactions. There is a growing awareness that ancient law texts were not arbitrary collections of legal paragraphs but articulations of certain world views. The laws were rational in their own respect and were based on the lawgiver's ethos. However, since the ethical values of the lawgiver rarely-if ever-surface in the text itself, it has proven difficult to grasp with traditional, exegetical methods. This study offers a novel approach to mapping out the ethos of an ancient law text like Leviticus 17-26. By employing social network analysis, the participants and their interactions are mapped to scrutinize the ethical roles embodied by the persons of the law. To accomplish this, the study undertakes meticulous research into both the participants and the interactions of Leviticus 17-26. The book investigates a semi-automatic approach to extracting participant information from a text and offers new methods for analysing Hebrew interactions (realised as verbal predicates) in terms of dynamicity, causation, and agency."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Law as Literature-Literature as Social Network / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 2. Towards a Social Network Analysis of the Holiness Code / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 3. Tracking the Participants / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 4. Semantic Roles and Decomposition of Agency / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 5. Dynamicity: A Collostructional Approach / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 6. Causation: Instigation, Volition, Affectedness, and a Hierarchy of Agency / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 7. Participants in Social Networks / Christian Canu Højgaard
• 8. Conclusion: The Social Network of Leviticus 17-26 / Christian Canu Højgaard.

Author/Creator:

Højgaard, Christian Canu , author, translator

Contributors:

Open Book Publishers , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

University of Cambridge > Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Languages:

English
Hebrew

Language Notes:

Chiefly English ; some Hebrew text.

Main Work:

Roles and relations in biblical law: a study of participant tracking, semantic roles, and social networks in Leviticus 17-26 [by Højgaard, C.C.]

Related Series:

Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures; v. 25

Subjects:

Bible — Leviticus, XVII-XXVI — Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Interpersonal relations — Religious aspects — Judaism

Bible — Leviticus, XVII-XXVI

Bible

Interpersonal relations

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

At foot of cover: University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
At head of front cover: Cambridge Semitic languages and cultures.
Includes bibliography (pages 377-429) and indexes.
This work is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 452 pages) : 34 illustrations, 16 tables.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

BS1255.52 .H543 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781805111511 (pdf)
9781805111498 (pbk.) [Invalid]
9781805111504 (hbk.) [Invalid]

ISSNs:

2632-6906 (Print) [Canceled]
2632-6914 (Online) [Canceled]

OCLC Numbers:

1439600798

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: xb36199278