James Barr Assessed

Evaluating His Legacy Over the Last Sixty Years
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46552-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 192, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 663 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

James Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best known for his The Semantics of Biblical Language. Barr’s Semantics, although first published in 1961, still generates animated discussion of its claims. However, over his lengthy career Barr published significant scholarship on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr’s contribution to biblical studies sixty years after the publication of his first and still memorable volume on biblical semantics. As a result, this volume includes essays on major topics such as the Hebrew language, lexical semantics, lexicography, the Septuagint, and biblical theology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Stanley E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

James Barr’s Life and Legacy: An Introduction

Stanley E. Porter

part 1: Hebrew Language and Old Testament

Linguistics, Philology, and the Text of the Old Testament

Robert D. Holmstedt

Comparative Philology and the Hebrew Language: Aspects of James Barr’s Critique

John F. A. Sawyer

part 2: Lexical Semantics and Biblical Philology

James Barr’s Biblical Words for Time Revisited

John Barton

James Barr on the ‘Illegitimate Totality Transfer’: Word-Concept Fallacy

Alan E. Kurschner

James Barr and the State of the Biblical Lexicon

David Arthur Lambert

Post-Semantics Commentary Writing: Romans 3:21–26 as an Example Text

Benjamin J. Baxter

The Semantics of Biblical Language: Reflections from Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics

Gene L. Green

part 3: Lexicography

James Barr, Semantic Domains, and the Mental Lexicon

Sean A. Adams

Building on the Shoulders of Giants: A Data-Driven Approach to Word Sense Differentiation

Randall K. J. Tan and Andi Wu

part 4: Septuagint

The Semantics of Septuagint Language: Greek Comprehensibility and Its Hebrew Referent

Ryder Wishart

The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr’s Semantics and Septuagint Studies

Darlene M. Seal

part 5: Biblical Theology

Was James Barr Wrong? Assessing His Critics on Biblical Theology

Stanley E. Porter

James Barr and Erroneous Method in Biblical Theology: Paul and the Gift as a Test Case

David I. Yoon

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has authored thirty volumes on a wide range of topics in the fields of New Testament studies, Greek language and linguistics, and related subjects.