Diglossia and other topics in New Testament linguistics / / edited by Stanley E. Porter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461546803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England : , : Sheffield Academic Press, , [2000]; ©2000
• ISBN: 1-283-19218-7; 9786613192189; 0-567-04166-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Collana: Studies in New Testament Greek ; ; 6; Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 193
• Disciplina: 487.4
• Soggetti: Diglossia (Linguistics); Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Diglossia and other topics in New Testament linguistics / Stanley E. Porter -- The current landscape of diglossia studies : the diglossic continuum in first-century Palestine / Jonathan M. Watt -- The question of diglossia in ancient Hebrew / Scobie P. Smith -- The functional distribution of Koine Greek in first-century Palestine / Stanley E. Porter -- Language repertoire and diglossia in first-century Palestine : some comments / Christina Bratt Paulston -- Translation technique in the Septuagint Leviticus / Dirk Bu?chner -- Of gutturals and Galileans : the two slurs of Matthew 26.73 / Jonathan M. Watt -- Language of change and the changing of language : a sociolinguistic approach to Pauline discourse / Jeffrey T. Reed -- Semantics and patterns of argumentation in the Book of Romans : definitions, proposals, data and experiments / Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell -- Ideology and point of view in Galatians 1-2 : a critical linguistic analysis / Edward Adams -- Designing and compiling a register-balanced corpus of Hellenistic Greek for the purpose of linguistic discription and investigation / Matthew Brook O'Donnell.
• Sommario/riassunto: The first part of this volume includes a summary of this important area ; of study in both Septuagintal and New Testament Greek, and a review of these issues in the context of linguistic research generally. A second part includes contributions on aspects of research into the Greek of both Testaments, featuring both new areas of research, such as critical discourse analysis, and more traditional issues such as the nature of the Septuagint translation.