The Semantics Of Biblical Language

Download or read book The Semantics of Biblical Language written by James Barr and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew written by Stephen Shead and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since James Barr’s work in the 1960s, the challenge for Hebrew scholars has been to continue to apply the insights of linguistic semantics to the study of biblical Hebrew. This book begins by describing a range of approaches to semantic and grammatical analysis, including structural semantics, cognitive linguistics and cognitive metaphors, frame semantics, and William Croft’s Radical Construction Grammar. It then seeks to integrate these, formulating a dynamic approach to lexical semantic analysis based on conceptual frames, using corpus annotation. The model is applied to biblical Hebrew in a detailed study of a family of words related to “exploring,” “searching,” and “seeking.” The results demonstrate the value and potential of cognitive, frame-based approaches to biblical Hebrew lexicology.

Download or read book Biblical Words and Their Meaning written by Moisés Silva and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and expanded edition presents a comprehensive exposition of biblical lexicology. .

Download or read book The Semantics of Biblical Language written by James Barr and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the academic and innocently descriptive title of this book is to be found one of the most explosive works of biblical scholarship to be published in the 20th century. Certainly many of those who read it when it first appeared were never the same again, and it signalled the end of what had hitherto been a flourishing literature on biblical theology. In recent years, Barr writes in the Preface, I have come to believe that one of the greatest dangers to sound and adequate interpretation of the Bible comes from the prevailing use of procedure which, while claiming to rest upon a knowledge of the Israelite and Greek ways of thinking, constantly mishandles and distorts the linguistic evidence of the Hebrew and Greek languages as they are used in the Bible. The increasing sense of dependence upon the Bible in the modern church only makes this danger more serious. The fact that these procedures have never to my knowledge been collected, analysed, and criticized in detail was the chief stimulus to my undertaking of this task myself. His conclusions brought much criticism initially, but forty years later they still stand. This book is essential reading for any student of the Bible.

Download or read book How Biblical Languages Work written by Peter James Silzer and published by Kregel Academic. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and easy-to-understand guide to the logical structure of both Hebrew and Greek. Ideal for biblical language students.

Download or read book The Semantics of Aspect and Modality written by Galia Hatav and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The semantics of aspect and modality” will be of interest both to linguists working on temporality, as a general phenomenon in language, and Hebraists investigating the semantics of the verbal forms in biblical Hebrew. Tense, aspect and modality are among the most challenging discussed areas of language. Similarly, the semantics of the verbal system in biblical Hebrew has been investigated since the Middle Ages. Galia Hatav provides extensive critical overviews of research in both areas, and suggests a new approach for analyzing the biblical Hebrew verb system, showing it to be tenseless. The overall approach adopted in the book is basically of truth conditional semantics, and adheres closely to Kamp’s DRT (Discourse Representation Theory). For each phenomenon covered, the relevant literature is surveyed and critically discussed, with reference to English, and when relevant to other languages, too. The conclusions arrived at are then applied to biblical Hebrew. However, despite the sophisticated semantic theory the book is also meticulous in its attention to philological details of the Hebrew text, lending to a particulary harmonious combination of formal and discourse approach. The biblical Hebrew part of the book will be of interest mainly to Hebraists, but linguists dealing with temporality in general may find it useful as an interesting illustration for a tenseless exotic language.

Download or read book Semantics of New Testament Greek written by J. P. Louw and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Semantics concerns itself with the nature, structure, development, and changes of the meaning of speech forms. While the more popular discipline of etymology has flourished, semantics has not become the subject of standard studies of New Testament Greek. Since semantics is concerned with more than the meaning of words and sentences, Professor Louw attempts to interpret this linguistic discipline to New Testament students who seek meaning in words, phrases, sentences, paragraphs, and complete narratives. By showing how semantics aids in interpreting the New Testament, he enables the reader to detect meaning in the whole of a text rather than in its dissected parts."--