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Publication details [#3210]

Ferguson, Charles A. 1976. The blessing of the lord be upon you. In Juilland, Alphonse, ed. Linguistic studies offered to Joseph Greenberg on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. In collaboration with A.M. Devine and Laurence D. Stephens. Anma Libri. pp. 21–26.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

blessing | culture change | language change | religious language

Annotation

An attempt to show why a particular interpretation of the two last sentences of Psalm 129, which are blessings, is the appropriate one, seen from a perspective of cultural and linguistic change.