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Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

William A. Ross; Elizabeth Robar;

Published On

2023-09-25

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-108-5
Hardback978-1-80511-109-2
PDF978-1-80511-110-8

Language

  • English

Print Length

374 pages (xxii+352)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 20 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.79" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 23 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.91" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback528g (18.62oz)
Hardback703g (24.80oz)

Media

Illustrations8

OCLC Number

1401575995

LCCN

2022361356

THEMA

  • CF
  • CFF
  • QRMF1
  • 2CSJ

BIC

  • CF
  • CFF
  • HRCG
  • 2CS

BISAC

  • LAN009000
  • LAN009010
  • BIB000000

LCC

  • P125

Keywords

  • Biblical Text
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Functional Grammar
  • Generative linguistics
  • Ancient Hebrew
  • Computational Linguistics

Linguistic Theory and the Biblical Text

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.

Contributors

William A. Ross

(editor)
Associate Professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary

William A. Ross (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2018) is associate professor of Old Testament at Reformed Theological Seminary in Charlotte, North Carolina. His publications include Postclassical Greek Prepositions and Conceptual Metaphor (edited with Steven E. Runge; De Gruyter, 2022) and Postclassical Greek and Septuagint Lexicography (SBL Press, 2022). His research focuses on the Septuagint, linguistics and lexicography, and the history of biblical philology.

Elizabeth Robar

(editor)
Department of Middle Eastern Studies at University of Cambridge

Elizabeth Robar (PhD, University of Cambridge, 2013) is author of The Verb and the Paragraph: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach (Brill, 2014), an adaptation of her doctoral dissertation. She founded Cambridge Digital Bible Research, a charity to make biblical scholarship available, accessible, and useful to interpreters of the Bible. Her research is philological, linguistic, and exegetical in nature, focusing on the Biblical Hebrew verbal system, syntax, linguistic change, and the ramifications of research in these areas for exegetical interpretation.