The Notion of "holy" in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE : : A Comparative Approach Using Digital Tools and Methods / / Thomas Jurczyk.

• VerfasserIn: Jurczyk, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Bielefeld University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (381 pages)

Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of holy beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of two notions and their related word fields that are commonly associated with a br...

Table of Contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Introduction
• 1.1 The Importance of Comparative Notions for the Study of Religion
• 1.2 Overall Structure of This Book
• 2. State of Research
• 2.2 History of Armenia in the Fifth Century CE
• 2.3 The Notion of Holy in the Study of Religion
• 2.4 Historical Notions of Holy
• 2.5 Corpus Linguistics and Distributional Semantics
• 3. Methodology
• 3.2 Text Statistics
• 3.3 Synoptic Tables and Sentence Analysis
• 3.4 Annotation Scheme
• 4. Data
• 4.1 Holy/Sacred English Corpus (HSEC) 4.2 Ancient Armenian Full Text Corpus (AAFTC) and Ancient Armenian Surb Corpus (AASC)
• 5. Examination
• 5.1 Armenian Corpora
• 5.2 English Corpora
• 6. Comparison
• 6.1 Examination of the Individual Semantic Fields
• 6.2 The Comparison
• 7. Conclusion
• 7.1 Results of the Individual Examinations
• 7.2 Overlappings between Surb, Holy, and the Comparative Notion of Holy
• 7.3 Contributions to the History of Religion and the Comparative Notion of Holy
• 7.4 Critical Review of the Methodology
• Bibliography.