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Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation. Note: if you could only afford one book on this list, I would recommend Cotterell and Turner over the others with a close second being Black, Linguistics for Students of New Testament Greek. Carston, Robyn. Malden, MA: Blackwell, Green, Gene L.
Gutt, Ernst-August. Lee, John A. A History New Testament Lexicography. Studies in Biblical Greek 8. New York: Lang, Leithart, Peter J. Lyons, John. Introduction to Theoretical Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Warning: of all the books listed here, Lyons is easily the most technical! Approach at your own risk!
Revised and Expanded ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, He received his Ph.
But in general, I really like this two-part series — and if all NT exegetes read it, many stupid mistakes in the literature could be avoided! Some very important observations, but I see no mention of cognitive linguistics, which is where most of these insights were developed. A fair point, but there was only so much I could touch on in a post such as this. Relevance Theory is another area that deserves more discussion, for any serious consideration of lexical semantics. This was meant more to be a general introduction to word studies. These posts are pretty unsatisfactory so far in my opinion.
Biblical studies sorely needs to move beyond Barr, Louw and Nida, Cotterell and Turner, and for goodness sakes Hirsch. They are seriously dated at this point. William your comment appears to be unsatisfactory.
WHY is the post s unsatisfactory? WHY do Biblical studies need to move on? It was the caterpillar who spoke about words meaning what he meant them to mean, not Humpty Dumpty who does not figure in Alice at all. One hopes that the writer is not so cavalier in his quoting of Scripture as he is in his quoting of Charles Dodson. If we cannot believe him when he writes of earthly things, how can we trust him when he attempts to write of spiritual things?!
Hi Paul, do you have a reference to confirm that it was the caterpillar and not Humpty Dumpty? The citation by Paul Himes is given at the bottom of the post, from the edition.
In the edition, the same Humpty Dumpty scene can be found in chapter 6, page Are you perhaps referring to the animated Disney version? Hawkins, here is the link to the actual book in archive. When I read your introduction to this second article; I can clearly see the 2 Great Powers that have influenced the People living, or Those Who have lived, on Earth. There is a great underlying question put to the Readers of a book of ancient Greek and Hebrew literature. Which do You choose. You must choose… Life or Death? Lexicogrammar represents the lexical intersections required to unveil the meaning of a word.
Any one of the pieces of this puzzle that are missing will produce likely misconception. Each of these issues represents an active social constraint to lexical semantics. Etymology will only produce confusion. If, however, one studies the use from simply within the lexicogrammatical connections of any one certain time period, the researcher will maintain a solid understanding for each time period. A totally different antithetical I might add lexicogrammatical embedding within society.
A good example of how etymology requires separation from lexical semantics. This is the way languages work—they function for the users of that time, culture and situation. The theory obviously drives infinitely deeper than this crude, simplistic example, but the principles remains clear: words do not exist in themselves; they exist only within the lexicogrammar in which they are embedded by its users. For several decades, I have placed my age at nearly, or more than, years. Theology does not inform linguistics, but visa versa, a rigorous linguistic methodology informed by actual data does extremely well to unveil his desires.
Otherwise why would God bother to reach out to new generations? Words not only DO change meaning —because God made no promise to preserve any language as evident through history — God is well aware of those changes and sends actual people to reach out to them. And God is not shaken nor surprised by that.
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