Publications

Publication details [#38906]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2004. Jewish cultural scripts and the interpretation of the Bible. Journal of Pragmatics 36 (3) : 575–599.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

cultural script | interpretation | literature | religion | understanding

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper argues that the knowledge of cultural script models enhances cross-cultural understanding in general, and that, in particular, it can be an efficient tool for Bible interpretation.