Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible
Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2024-01-25

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0567709914

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The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpretation and how a close collaboration between hermeneutics and linguistics can help to solve them. The chapters display Porter's work in both fields, examining how hermeneutics functions as a field in modern biblical studies, and how the quest for meaning in biblical texts is underpinned by the study of linguistics. The volume focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts. Porter suggests that linguists can learn more from the philosophical questions around meaning that hermeneutics apply in their study of biblical texts, and that there is more fruitful work to be done in the field of hermeneutics using insights from linguistics.

Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics
Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics

Author: Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

Published: 2009-08-19

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0310539498

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Since its publication in 1994, An Introduction to Biblical Hermeneutics has become a standard text for a generation of students, pastors, and serious lay readers. This second edition has been substantially updated and expanded, allowing the authors to fine-tune and enrich their discussions on fundamental interpretive topics. In addition, four new chapters have been included that address more recent controversial issues: • The role of biblical theology in interpretation • How to deal with contemporary questions not directly addressed in the Bible • The New Testament’s use of the Old Testament • The role of history in interpretation The book retains the unique aspect of being written by two scholars who hold differing viewpoints on many issues, making for vibrant, thought-provoking dialogue. What they do agree on, however, is the authority of Scripture, the relevance of personal Bible study to life, and why these things matter.

Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis
Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis

Author: Douglas Mangum

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1577997050

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We rarely think about the way languages work because communicating in our native tongue comes so naturally to us. The Bible was written in ancient Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—languages no modern reader can claim to have a native understanding of. A better understanding of how language works should help us understand the Bible better as we seek to discern the original intent and meaning of each biblical author. In this book, you will get a basic introduction to the field of linguistics—its history, its key concepts, its major schools of thought, and how its insights can shed light on various problems in biblical Hebrew and Greek. Numerous examples illustrate linguistic concepts, and technical terminology is clearly defined. Learn how the study of language can enhance your Bible study.

God, Language and Scripture
God, Language and Scripture

Author: Moises Silva

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 2010-09-08

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0310877431

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The primary aim of God, Language and Scripture is to provide guidance in the use of biblical languages. Secondarily this volume initiates the reader to the wonders and workings of language and points out how language is often misused, especially in regard to the Bible. This volume, however, in no way anticipates all the ways of mishandling language. Silva's emphasis is on 'global' rather than detailed concerns (though selected specific examples are used) of how language is misused. The book includes an account of the birth and growth of modern linguistics, an appreciation of its interdisciplinary character, particularly its ties with literary criticism, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and science. It surveys all levels of language description, but emphasizes the semantic and stylistic aspects of grammar and syntax, vocabulary, and discourse. In addition, it considers the transmission of the Bible (textual criticism and translation) as a mode of linguistic communication and interpretive process.

New Testament Semiotics
New Testament Semiotics

Author: Timo Eskola

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-08-30

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9004465766

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Navigating through different realist and nominalist traditions, Timo Eskola suggests that signs are about conditions and functions and participate in a web of relations. Questioning Derridean poststructuralism, the author reinstates Benveniste’s hermeneutics of enunciation and suggests a new approach to metatheology.

From Linguistics to Hermeneutics
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics

Author: Pierre van Hecke

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 9004188355

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Drawing on the insights of functional grammar and cognitive semantics, this book offers a detailed linguistic analysis of Job 12-14 and a fresh exegetical reading of Job's longest and central speech in the book.

Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation
Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation

Author: V. Philips Long

Publisher: Zondervan

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0310208289

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This one-volume edidition of the Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation series explores current issues in the interpretation of the Bible from the perspective of specific academic disciplines: history, literary criticism, science and theology.

Linguistics and the Bible
Linguistics and the Bible

Author: Stanley E. Porter

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-07-12

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1532659105

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In 2016, the Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation, and Exegesis (CBLTE), a research center located at McMaster Divinity College, hosted the annual Bingham Colloquium. Scholars from around North America were invited to participate in a collegial and collaborative dialogue on what is currently happening (or could happen) at the intersection of linguistics and biblical studies, particularly in regards to the linguistic study of biblical languages, their translation, and the way that linguistic methods can contribute to the interpretation of the biblical texts. This volume of essays publishes many of the presentations that took place at the Colloquium.