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James Barr Quotes

1924–2006 Scotland

Rev. Professor James Barr (20 March 1924 – 14 October 2006) was a Scottish Old Testament scholar.

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This book is therefore consecrated to the deeper and fuller study of that linguistic world in which the Hebrew Bible is set.

The problem here is not so much a historical one, more a terminological and philosophical one.

We shall work not on the macrocosmic scale of the literary forms, but on the microcosmic scale of the lexical forms.

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