Wierzbicka on the Sermon on the Mount and the Parables

Daniel Riaño danielrr at retemail.es
Sun Apr 15 12:44:27 EDT 2001


	I thought this announce from the Linguist list might be of 
interest to some listmembers. I haven't read the book yet. but coming 
from Wierzbicka it sure is worth the reading.
Best regards,
Daniel

>LINGUIST List:  Vol-12-1004. Tue Apr 10 2001. ISSN: 1068-4875.
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>Subject: 12.1004, Books: Cross Cultural Communication
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>Date:  Tue, 10 Apr 2001 10:19:20 -0400
>From:  Kimberly Kahn <KRK at OUP-USA.ORG>
>Subject:  Cross Cultural Communication: What did Jesus Mean? by Wierzbicka
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>WHAT DID JESUS MEAN?: Explaining the Sermon on the Mount
>and the Parables in Simple and Universal Human Concepts
>Anna Wierzbicka, Australian National University, Canberra
>
>In this highly interdisciplinary work, linguist Anna Wierzbicka casts
>new light on the words of Jesus by taking her well-known semantic
>theory of "universal human concepts"- concepts which are intuitively
>understandable and self-explanatory across languages-and bringing it
>to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount.  Her approach
>results in strikingly novel interpretations of the Gospels. Written in
>dialogue with other biblical commentators, What Did Jesus Mean? is
>both scholarly rigorous yet accessible.
>
>April 2001   528 pp.
>0-19-513733-7 paper $29.95
>0-19-513732-9 cloth $65.00
>Oxford University Press
>
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Daniel Riaño Rufilanchas
Madrid, España



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