Zewi, Tamar. 2012. “Review of S. L. Shead. Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew: Exploring Lexical Semantics. (Biblical Interpretation Series 108). Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011.” Ancient Near Eastern Studies 49: 240-242. (original) (raw)

The review critiques S. L. Shead's work on lexical semantics of biblical Hebrew, highlighting its lack of up-to-date bibliography while recognizing its value as a comprehensive source for ancient Near Eastern texts. It discusses the three main parts of Shead's text, which include foundational linguistic theories and their application to biblical Hebrew, noting both strengths and weaknesses in the author's engagement with cognitive semantics and FrameNet. The paper emphasizes the work's teaching potential despite its limitations.