A Life of Missionary Scholarship | Todd Scacewater
The story of one Bible translator who integrated his mission work with his scholarship, and became the most prolific contributor in a journal’s history.
The story of one Bible translator who integrated his mission work with his scholarship, and became the most prolific contributor in a journal’s history.
You need more than grammar and syntax to exegete the Bible, because its authors naturally incorporated elements of discourse into their writing! Learn where discourse analysis came from, what it is, and what to do about it.
Few have given the Greek text of James as much attention as William Varner. Listen as he shares his story with Greek, ministry, and more.
I have worked through enough of this volume to offer a positive recommendation. Porter has complained that most commentaries are composed of comments on other commentaries. This is an observation that I echo as well. He has succeeded, in my opinion, in avoiding that pitfall. As would be expected, Porter is very familiar with the literature….
Based on A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Second and Third Editions with references to Wallace’s Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics and Harris’ Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament,…
Several handbooks on discourse analysis have been published recently. To gain a little perspective, Brown and Yule’s Cambridge Textbook on discourse analysis was published in 1983. In this short 30 years, the field of discourse analysis is not…
Several handbooks on discourse analysis have been published lately, including one by Bloomsbury and one by Wiley Blackwell (review coming soon). If I had to rank them, I would rank this Routledge handbook best for non- or beginning linguists, and the Wiley Blackwell volume the best for specialists, while the Bloomsbury edition tries to straddle both worlds but falls a bit shorter in breadth of topics….
In Constantine Campbell’s latest book, Advances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament, he summarizes in two chapters the use of discourse analysis by New Testament scholars over the past few decades. A summary of these chapters and some evaluative comments might be helpful for those interested in discourse analysis….
This collection of essays aims to “provide a way into this complex and wide-ranging field [of analyzing discourse] for beginning researchers in the area of applied linguistics” (15). They hope to provide “teachers, students, and researchers with a way of theorizing and investigating both spoken and written discourse.”
The first part of the book contains essays on various methods of discourse analysis. These methods may be executed on written or oral discourses and may stem from various methodological schools of thought. There are essays on narrative analysis, genre analysis, corpus approaches to discourse analysis, and more that are someone less relevant to biblical studies (although see below for a couple that are quite relevant)….
Discourse analysis is a sub-discipline within linguistics that is used to analyze discourse at a level larger than the sentence. Before discourse analysis evolved, linguists were concerned primarily with morphemes, words, phrases, and at most, sentences. But linguists in the latter half of the twentieth century began developing tools and theories for analyzing paragraphs, sections, and entire discourses. These discourses may be oral or written, and discourse analysis is intended to handle both mediums of communication….