Discourse Analysis and Other Topics in Biblical Greek (Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

by D. A. Carson; Stanley E. Porter

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Sheffield Academic Press

, 1995

ISBN: 9781850755456

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Overview

Discourse analysis is the study of the rules or patterns characterizing units of connected speech or writing. The essays here were first presented at the Society of Biblical Literature in the early 1990s. Porter contributes two chapters which survey discourse analysis—one dealing with New Testament studies and the other on how biblical discourse can be analyzed. Topical chapters include these subjects: identifying the theme in the New Testament; recognizing prominence in the text; interpreting the language of Paul; syntactical background studies; and diachronic analysis.

Product Details

Title: Discourse Analysis and Other Topics in Biblical Greek
Editors: Stanley E. Porter and D. A. Carson
Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 222

About the Editors

Stanley E. Porter has taught for over twenty years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the USA, and the UK. His publications include fourteen authored books and over 100 authored journal articles and chapters, along with various shorter pieces; he has also edited over 55 volumes. He remains a well-known and respected expert in Greek and the broader field of New Testament studies. He is currently the President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Donald A. Carson is a research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois. He has been at Trinity since 1978. Dr. Carson came to Trinity from the faculty of Northwest Baptist Theological Seminary in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he served for two years as Academic Dean. He also taught at Northwest Baptist Theological College, Richmond College, and Central Baptist Seminary in Toronto. He has served as assistant pastor and pastor and has done itinerant ministry in Canada and the United Kingdom. Dr. Carson's areas of expertise include biblical theology, the historical Jesus, postmodernism, pluralism, Greek grammar, Johannine theology, Pauline theology, and questions of suffering and evil. He is a member of the Tyndale Fellowship for Biblical Research, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Evangelical Theological Society, the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, and the Institute for Biblical Research.

Top Highlights

“The study of prominence by discourse analysts provides a more linguistic, methodologically rigorous approach to questions of theme and emphasis. Prominence is defined here as those semantic and grammatical elements of discourse that serve to set aside certain subjects, ideas or motifs of the author as more or less semantically and pragmatically significant than others.³ Without prominence discourse would be dull, flat and, to a certain degree, incoherent.” (Page 76)

“According to Halliday, theme is that element which states what is being talked about in the clause. The rheme is that element which contributes what is being said about the theme. The theme comes first in a clause—it sets the stage for what follows. The remainder of the clause is the rheme.” (Page 78)

“focus refers to those linguistic elements that stand out somewhat unexpectedly” (Page 80)

“The first discourse analytical school of thought in New Testament studies to be examined here is the North American model employed by the Summer Institute of Linguistics or SIL.” (Page 24)

“The third model of discourse analysis to be discussed is by far the least cohesive, and the most far-ranging. This is the Continental European model, particularly focused upon the work of the Scandinavian school of New Testament studies.” (Page 30)