"Dead Souls" and "Open Vessel." Is There a Need for a "New" Meaning of the Hebrew Word nefeš?

dc.contributor.author	Lemański, Janusz Adam
dc.date.accessioned	2022-10-05T11:05:56Z
dc.date.available	2022-10-05T11:05:56Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	The noun nefeš is ascribed the sense of “corpse” in several instances of the Hebrew Bible. All of them are analysed to trace the possible development of the semantic field of this word. It leads to the conclusion that this implied sense arose from the shortening of longer phrases (nefeš 'ādām; nefeš mēt). The noun nefeš used in them, however, retains its basic meaning of “person,” and its reference to a corpse is only apparent from the context. In a similar sense, the author also reads the use of the abbreviated version, which represents a person and not just a corpse (synecdoche) – a person who dies and gradually passes into the hereafter.	en
dc.identifier.citation	"Verbum Vitae", 2022, T. 40, nr 3, s. 661-674	pl
dc.identifier.doi	10.31743/vv.13729
dc.identifier.issn	1644-8561
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/3731
dc.language.iso	en	pl
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo KUL	pl
dc.rights	Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	nefeš	pl
dc.subject	corpse	pl
dc.subject	deceased	pl
dc.subject	ritual impurity	pl
dc.subject	open vessel	pl
dc.title	"Dead Souls" and "Open Vessel." Is There a Need for a "New" Meaning of the Hebrew Word nefeš?	en
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	pl