ISBN: 9789004246485 - creation language in romans 8: a study in monosemy (linguistic biblical studies, band 8) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorGregory P. Fewster is a graduate of McMaster Divinity College and is Adjunct Instructor of Greek at Great Lakes Bible College in Waterloo, Ontario. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Biblical and Ancient Gre.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Modern scholarship tends to understand Paul's use of creation language (?t?s??) in Rom 8.18-23 as part of a commentary on the state of sub-human creation. This misguided position warrants an inquiry into the state of lexical study in New Testament scholarship. As a result, Fewster articulates a theory of lexical monosemy, cast in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The model is applied to Paul's use of ?t?s?? through a robust corpus analysis and investigation into the word's role within the paragraph. ?t?s?? contributes to the cohesive structure of Rom 8.18-23 and--contra the majority of interpreters--functions as a metaphor for the human body.…