Puns and Pundits: Word Play in the Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature - Hardcover

by Scott Noegel (Editor)

Essays on the use of word play in the literature of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel, and Medieval Hebrew and Arabic literature; includes such topics as: alliterative allusions, rebus writing, ominous homophony, portentous puns, and paronomasia.