Modeling Biblical Language : : selected papers from the McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle / / Edited by Stanley E. Porter ; Gregory P. Fewster ; Christopher D. Land.

Modeling Biblical Language presents articles with some of the latest scholarship applying linguistic theory to the study of the Christian Bible. The contributors are all associated with the McMaster Divinity College Linguistic Circle, a collegial forum for presenting working papers in modern linguis...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Linguistic Biblical Studies 13.
Physical Description:1 online resource (446 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Modeling Biblical Language: An Introduction / Stanley E. Porter , Gregory P. Fewster and Christopher D. Land
  • 1 Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Greek Language: The Need for Further Modeling / Stanley E. Porter
  • 2 Aspect and Aktionsart Once Again / Francis G.H. Pang
  • 3 Relative Temporal Ordering: Discourse Temporality in the Greek of the New Testament / Jeffrey Reber
  • 4 Evaluation Theory and the Ideology of Judges 6 / Mary L. Conway
  • 5 Sam(p)son’s Advent: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Judges 13 in Hebrew and Greek / Anthony Pyles
  • 6 Yahweh as Shepherd-King in Ezekiel 34: A Linguistic-Literary Analysis of Metaphors of Shepherding / Beth M. Stovell
  • 7 Jesus before Pilate: A Discourse Analysis of John 18:33–38 / Christopher D. Land
  • 8 Towards a Model of Functional Monosemy: A Study of Creation Language in Romans / Gregory P. Fewster
  • 9 An Intertextual Discourse Analysis of Romans 9:30–10:13 / Xiaxia E. Xue
  • 10 Reconsidering the Meaning and Translation of Πνευματικός and Πνεῦμα in the Discourse Context of 1 Corinthians 12–14 / Hughson T. Ong
  • 11 Metaphor Analysis with Some Help from Corpus Linguistics: Contextualizing “Root” Metaphors in Ephesians and Colossians / Gregory P. Fewster
  • 12 Language as Negotiation: Toward a Systemic Functional Model for Ideological Criticism with Application to James 2:1–13 / Zachary K. Dawson
  • 13 Meaning in Bulk: The Greek Clause Complex and 1 Peter 1:3–12 / Benjamin B. Hunt
  • Index of Modern Authors
  • Index of Ancient Sources.