Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible The Importance of Context (T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
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.
- Examines how hermeneutics functions as a field in modern biblical studies
- Explores how the quest for meaning in biblical texts is underpinned by the study of linguistics
- Focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts
- Prefacev
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: An Orientation to Hermeneutics
- 1: What Constitutes Hermeneutics Today?v
- 2: What Difference Does Hermeneutics Make in Biblical Interpretation?
- 3: Where Is the Locus of Meaning?
- 4: The Meaning of Meaning
- 5: The Question of Context
- 6: A Functional Model of Context
- 7: A Single Horizon Hermeneutics
- Index of Modern Authors
- Index of Ancient Sources
Part 1: Hermeneutics and the Problems of Interpretation
Part 2: Linguistics and Solutions to the Problem of Interpretation
Part 3: Conclusion
- Title: Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible: The Importance of Context
- Author: Stanley E. Porter
- Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Pages: 200
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:HRMNTCSLNGCNTXT
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T17:20:22Z
Stanley E. Porter, PhD, University of Sheffield, has taught for more than 30 years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is a Greek and New Testament expert, and, since 2001, has been the president, dean, and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He's best known for his works on verbal aspects in New Testament Greek, is actively involved in OpenText.org and the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek, and is a regular columnist for Christian Week.
Porter is the author or editor of numerous New Testament and Greek studies, including Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results, and Dictionary of New Testament Background. He has edited over 80 volumes and authored 28 books on various New Testament and related topics, including How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation, and The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Plus, he's published more than 450 journal articles, chapters in books, and dictionary entries and regularly speaks at major conferences and other venues around the world.
His interests include Greek language and linguistics, hermeneutics and various methods of interpretation, and a range of New Testament studies from the Gospels to John to Acts to Paul. He is also a papyrological and text-oriented research specialist and is interested in the wider Greco-Roman world. Outside of academia, Stanley has served in young adult ministry and has assisted in developing a lay training institute for the local church.