By Bernard S. Jackson
This publication explains and illustrates a number of semiotic concerns within the learn of biblical legislations. starting with a evaluation of appropriate literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical legislations when it comes to its clients, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the suggestion of 'literal meaning', on the point of either phrases and sentences, who prefer to determine that means developed through the narrative photos that the language inspires. those photographs may possibly come from both social adventure or cultural narratives. Speech functionality is necessary, either within the negotiation of the legislations and the narratives of its verbal exchange. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, using different senses and related to such notions as area and time, additionally must be taken into consideration. For the early biblical interval, at the very least, conceptions of legislation dependent upon sleek types must be changed by way of the idea of 'wisdom-laws'. among the problems addressed during the argument are the constitution of the Decalogue, the function within the legislations of (Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic punishment'.
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Should we conclude, therefore, that we have a record of the boy's 'kitchen' name—'Sonny"? I think not. We have to relate this to the phrase that immediately precedes: 13,^ il1? TPT (and became to her as a son). Pharaoh's daughter adopted Moses. How was adoption performed? Probably, by a formulaic speech act, examples of which are found in ancient Near Eastern sources, such as 'You are my father and I am your son' (see Paul 1978). ' Knowledge of the relevant institution was apparently lost to our narrator, who reinterpreted the speech act as that of simple naming,10 with the result that we now have before us.
While 'vertical' development will vary according to the milieu, 'horizontal' development, the accumulation of experience and wisdom, will always distinguish the thought of the adult from that of the child, in primitive societies as well as in our own. And it is surely an extraordinarily narrow assessment of human beings to say that wisdom, experience, and emotional maturity count for nothing by comparison with the ability to conserve quantity or to grasp logical inclusion. 32 Hallpike defines as 'primitive' societies 'that are non-literate, relatively unspecialized, pre-industrial, small-scale, and characterized by "face-to-face" relations in everyday life' (vi).
16). 13 Why not merely say, as in 12. 4, infra). 13. Cf. the famous argument of Alf Ross (1957) as to the redundancy of legal 50 Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law the normal casuistic form, 'If he struck him down with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he shall be put to death'? 14 Between the statement of the facts, and the provision of the legal remedy, a diagnosis of the legal condition is inserted. Its origin, he suggested, lies in medical texts. Between the description of the symptoms and the prescription of a treatment, we have a diagnosis of the ailment.