Bmh as Body Language: A Lexical and Iconographical Study of the Word Bmh When Not a Reference to Cultic Phenomena in Biblical and Post-Bibli

by W. Boyd Barrick

It is customarily assumed that the Hebrew word BMH denotes a "high place," first a topographical elevation and derivatively a cult place elevated either by location or construction. This book offers a fresh, systematic, and comprehensive examination of the word in those biblical and post-biblical passages where it supposedly carries its primary topographical sense. Although the word is used in this way in only a handful of its attestations, they...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567026582
• ISBN13: 9780567026583
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"