Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures
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Overview
Linguistics and the New Testament explores what the editors believe are crucial phases in the application of linguistics to New Testament Greek. The first half of the volume includes essays on such topics as linguistics and literary criticism, linguistics and historical criticism, and linguistics and rhetoric. The second half includes essays dealing with the relations and uses of individual words, but ranges from oral composition to the value of word frequency in determining authorship. Some of these essays review established models of research, while others propose new models and criteria of linguistic analysis.
Contributors
- D. A. Carson
- Paul Danove
- Casey W. Davis
- George H. Guthrie
- Andreas J. Köstenberger
- Matthew Brook O'Donnell
- Stanley E. Porter
- Jeffrey T. Reed
Product Details
- Title: Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures
- Editors: Stanley E. Porter and D. A. Carson
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 297
About the Editors
Stanley E. Porter has taught for over twenty years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the USA, and the UK. His publications include fourteen authored books and over 100 authored journal articles and chapters, along with various shorter pieces; he has also edited over 55 volumes. He remains a well-known and respected expert in Greek and the broader field of New Testament studies. He is currently the President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.
Donald A. Carson is a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Dr. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he served for two years as Academic Dean. He also taught at Northwest Baptist Theological College, Richmond College, and Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto. He has served as assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Dr. Carson's areas of expertise include biblical theology, the historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Greek grammar, Johannine theology, Pauline theology, and questions of suffering and evil. He is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and the Institute for Biblical Research.
Sample Pages from the Print Edition
Top Highlights
“The fourth approach emphasizes the classic disciplines first: the necessary languages, detailed familiarity with the relevant texts, wide reading and reflection, a secondary (but important) grasp of the principal secondary literature.” (Page 17)
“Thus, oral poets may tell a song hundreds of times with very little change in the general content but they are unlikely to tell it exactly the same way twice.” (Page 100)
“The best general introduction to linguistics, without particular reference to the New Testament, is still the much-cited work by John Lyons.” (Page 19)
“father of modern linguistics is almost universally acknowledged to be Ferdinand de Saussure” (Page 18)
“Are all methodologies equally valid? All interpretations? Those of a David Koresh as well as a reader-response critic? A fundamentalist’s as well as a deconstructionist’s? Hitler’s as well as yours and mine? Against the postmodern myth that all of life is simply interpretation, we must say that interpretations have implications both in life and in the critical enterprise of dealing with texts. Hermeneutical convictions behind interpretive strategies matter.” (Pages 31–32)
- Title: Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures
- Authors: Stanley E. Porter, D. A. Carson
- Series: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series
- Volume: 168
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Greek language, Biblical › Grammar; Linguistics; Bible. N.T. › Language, style
- ISBNs: 9781850759911, 185075991X
- Resource ID: LLS:LINGANDNEWT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:14:14Z
