The semantics of Biblical language /
Barr, James, 1924-2006
The semantics of Biblical language / James Barr. - [London] : Oxford University Press, 1961. - x, 313 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. [299]-303.
Importance of the problem --
Current contrast of Greek and Hebrew thought --
Problems of method --
Verbs, action and time --
Other arguments from morphological and syntactic phenomena --
Etymologies and related arguments --
'Faith' and 'Truth': an examination of some linguistic arguments --
Some principles of Kittel's Theological Dictionary --
Language and the idea of 'Biblical Theology': detached note on the non-use of certain words in the Greek Bible --
Languages and the Study of Theology --
Abbreviations --
Bibliography --
Index of Hebrew words --
Index of Greek words --
Index of persons and subjects.
It is a main concern of both scholarship and theology that the Bible should be soundly and adequately interpreted. In recent years I have come to believe that one of the greatest dangers to such sound and adequate interpretation comes from the prevailing use of procedures which, while claiming to rest upon a knowledge of the Israelite and the Greek ways of thinking, constantly mishandle and distort the linguistic evidence of the Hebrew and Greek languages as they are used in the Bible. The fact that these procedures have never to my knowledge been collected, analyzed and criticized in detail was the chief stimulus to my undertaking of this task myself.
Bible--Language, style.
Biblija--Jezik, stil.
Greek language, Biblical.
Grčki jezik, biblijski.
Biblijski grčki jezik.
Hebrew language.
The semantics of Biblical language / James Barr. - [London] : Oxford University Press, 1961. - x, 313 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: p. [299]-303.
Importance of the problem --
Current contrast of Greek and Hebrew thought --
Problems of method --
Verbs, action and time --
Other arguments from morphological and syntactic phenomena --
Etymologies and related arguments --
'Faith' and 'Truth': an examination of some linguistic arguments --
Some principles of Kittel's Theological Dictionary --
Language and the idea of 'Biblical Theology': detached note on the non-use of certain words in the Greek Bible --
Languages and the Study of Theology --
Abbreviations --
Bibliography --
Index of Hebrew words --
Index of Greek words --
Index of persons and subjects.
It is a main concern of both scholarship and theology that the Bible should be soundly and adequately interpreted. In recent years I have come to believe that one of the greatest dangers to such sound and adequate interpretation comes from the prevailing use of procedures which, while claiming to rest upon a knowledge of the Israelite and the Greek ways of thinking, constantly mishandle and distort the linguistic evidence of the Hebrew and Greek languages as they are used in the Bible. The fact that these procedures have never to my knowledge been collected, analyzed and criticized in detail was the chief stimulus to my undertaking of this task myself.
Bible--Language, style.
Biblija--Jezik, stil.
Greek language, Biblical.
Grčki jezik, biblijski.
Biblijski grčki jezik.
Hebrew language.