William A. Ross (editor), Elizabeth Robar (editor)
This volume is the result of the 2021 session of the Linguistics and
the Biblical Text research group of the Institute for Biblical
Research, which addresses the history, relevance, and prospects of broad
theoretical linguistic frameworks in the field of biblical studies.
Cognitive Linguistics, Functional Grammar, generative linguistics,
historical linguistics, complexity theory, and computational analysis
are each allotted a chapter, outlining the key theoretical commitments
of each approach, their major concepts and/or methods, and their
important contributions to contemporary study of the biblical text.
As
academic disciplines and academic publishing proliferate and become
more complex in a digital and global context, synthesising volumes such
as this one have taken on new importance for both specialists and
generalists alike. That is particularly the case in interdisciplinary
areas of research. This volume therefore sets out to make linguistic
theory clearer and more accessible to biblical scholars in particular,
not only by careful explanation but also by specific illustration,
drawing upon ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek languages within the
Christian biblical corpus. The volume assists the reader in
distinguishing the separate assumptions and scope of study for the
separate theories, recognising methods of approach that can be applied
to any of the theories, and the role of an umbrella theory to enable all
the others to fruitfully interact.
The
bibliographies provided are structured for the non-specialist, noting
handbooks, companions, and glossaries, general introductions, and
foundational texts.
In so doing, this
volume presents not only a fully up-to-date cross-section of linguistic
research in biblical scholarship but also an explicit path into the
field, while highlighting important avenues for continued investigation
and collaboration.Copyright
William A. Ross; Elizabeth Robar;Published On
2023-09-25ISBN
Paperback978-1-80511-108-5
Hardback978-1-80511-109-2
PDF978-1-80511-110-8
Print Length
374 pages (xxii+352)
Contents
- Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé
- Jacobus A. Naudé
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