Biblical Words and Meaning Sc Rev : An Introduction to Lexical Semantics

Authors of an earlier century who filled title pages with never-ending qualifications knew what they were doing. How can one adequately describe the contents of a book in one or two phrases? The present work, for example, makes the pretension of covering the broad field of word meanings in the Bible, a task that cannot be executed in one volume without oversimplifying the material. But on the other hand, unsuspecting readers who have not given much prior thought to linguistics may notice the subtitle and decide to tackle the book, only to wonder what my brand of semantics has done to the simple word 'introduction.'

Moises Silva (Ph.D. Manchester) is professor of New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia