This dissertation is a study of paronomasia, or plays on words, in the narrative portions of the books of the Hebrew Bible known as the Former Prophets. The author first presents a summary of the history of the study of paronomasia in the Hebrew Bible. He then offers a taxonomic…
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Addad (plural of didd "opposite") is the term employed by Arab philologists to designate the Arabic words of which each denotes two opposite meanings such as jawn "dark" and "bright". The peculiarity of this phenomenon in Arabic has attracted the attention of scholars of differe…