Open Access Journal: Biblical Together With Ancient Greek Linguistics (Bagl)

 [First posted inward AWOL 25 July 2016, updated eleven Jan 2019]

Biblical too Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL)

Biblical too Ancient Greek Linguistics (BAGL), inward conjunction with the Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation, too Exegesis at McMaster Divinity College too the OpenText.org projection (www.opentext.org) is a fully refereed on-line too impress mag specializing inward widely disseminating the latest advances inward linguistic written report of ancient too biblical Greek. Under the senior editorship of Professor doc Stanley E. Porter too doc Matthew Brook O'Donnell, along with its assistant editors too editorial board, BAGL looks to reveal important piece of job that advances cognition of ancient Greek through the utilization of modern linguistic methods. Accepted pieces are inward the outset instance posted on-line inward page-consistent pdf format, too and then (except for reviews) are published inward impress shape each book year. This format ensures timely posting of the nigh recent piece of job inward Greek linguistics with consistently referencable articles too then available inward permanent impress form.

Volume 7 (2018)

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7.1	The Conceptualization of Communication inward the New Testament: H5N1 Feature Description Paul L. Danove Villanova University, Villanova, PA, USA This article develops 5 features that pull the conceptualizations of the upshot of communication grammaticalized past times New Testament verbs too uses these features to formulate a model of the observed New Testament usages of communication. The intelligence resolves all NT occurrences of verbs that designate communication into ane of twenty-one usages with distinct characteristic descriptions, offers guidelines for interpreting too translating verbs with each usage, too clarifies elements of the conceptualization of communication inward relation to specific examples. (Article) Keywords: Feature, communication, semantic, syntactic, verbal usage
7.2	Categories of Contrast inward New Testament Greek Nicholas P. Lunn Wycliffe Bible Translators, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK The next aims to furnish something lacking inward the champaign of New Testament Greek studies, which is an overview of the diverse forms inward which the logical relation of contrast may hold upwards realized inward the surface construction of the language. Here vii distinct categories are described, illustrated, too differentiated, with regard to both their inherent relation too their respective connectors. Variations, where such exist, inside each basic category are included, along with whatever sub-categories. H5N1 terminal department demonstrates the relevance of the presentation for the related tasks of translation too exegesis, offering analyses of several texts where in that location has been roughly confusion or misunderstanding with abide by to the contrasting relation. (Article) Keywords: Concession, replacement, exception, connector, translation
7.3	Cohesive Harmony Analysis for Ancient Greek: SelPap I:112 too PMich VIII:491 equally a Test Case John J.H. Lee McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada Ruqaiya Hasan’s Cohesive Harmony Analysis (CHA) is a useful tool to quantifiably predict the score of the reader’s perception of the coherence of an English linguistic communication text. This piece of job adopts too reconfigures her ideas to brand them applicable to ancient Greek texts. This article too then applies the modified version of Hasan’s CHA to investigate too compare the degrees of the perceived coherence of ii identify unit of measurement letters written inward the minute century AD. Based on the textual analyses, the determination is drawn that CHA is a promising tool to quantifiably predict the score of coherence of ancient Greek texts. (Article) Keywords: Cohesion, coherence, cohesive tie, cohesive chain, cohesive harmony analysis, ancient Greek
7.4	Monosemy: H5N1 Theoretical Sketch for Biblical Studies Ryder A. Wishart McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada This newspaper explores linguistic monosemy too the methodological priorities it suggests. These priorities include a bottom-up modeling of lexical semantics, a corpus-driven regain procedure, too a sign-based approach to linguistic description. Put simply, monosemy is a methodology for describing the semantic potential of linguistic signs. This methodology is driven past times the physical care for of abstraction based on verifiable data, too thus it incorporates empirical checks too balances into the tasks of linguistics, particularly (though non exclusively) lexical semantics. This newspaper contrasts lowest mutual denominator too greatest mutual cistron methodologies inside biblical studies, with 3 examples: (a) Porter too Pitts’s analysis of the semantics of the genitive inside the Greek instance arrangement inward regard to the πίστις Χριστοῦ debate; (b) disagreement betwixt Ronald Peters too Dan Wallace regarding the Greek article; too (c) the Porter–Fanning debate on the nature of verbal aspect inward Greek. Analysis of the Greek of the New Testament stands to create goodness from incorporating the insights of monosemy too the methodological correctives it steers toward. (Article) Keywords: Linguistic modeling, minimalism, traditional grammar, Saussure, Columbia School, semantics
7.5	Aspect too Imperatives Once More Stanley E. Porter McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, ON, Canada In this paper, I revisit the query of the aspectual nature of the imperative, or rather, examine the aspectual nature of imperatives too another forms that business office amongst the imperative equally forms of ascendance too prohibition. I split my comments into 3 sections: imperatives too the Greek mood system, verbal aspect too the imperative, too roughly abiding issues— 3 inward particular—that move on to hold upwards raised, despite the intelligence that has transpired over the in conclusion nearly 30 years. (Article) Keywords: Imperative, aspect, mood, frequency
7.6	May the Force Be with You: Volition, Direction, too Force: H5N1 Communicative Approach to the Imperative Mood Joseph D. Fantin Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX, USA Compared to other grammatical phenomena, the Greek imperative mood has received minimal attention. This article volition explore too evaluate the traditional approach to the pregnant too usages of this mood. These having been industrial plant life deficient, an alternate approach volition hold upwards proposed. The imperative mood volition indeed hold upwards industrial plant life to hateful “command”; however, a “command” tin flame hold upwards understood equally harsh too inappropriate inward certainly relational situations. It volition hold upwards discovered that communicators exercise diverse strategies to nuance too inward roughly cases weaken the strength of the “command” depending on the intended purpose of the imperative too the relationships of the participants inward a communication situation. Thus, score of strength is ane means (among others) to kind out an imperative. (Article) Keywords: Imperative mood, command, neurocognitive stratificational linguistics, relevance theory
7.7	“Evidence that Commands a Verdict”: Determining the Semantics of Imperatives inward the New Testament James D. Dvorak Oklahoma Christian University, Edmond, OK, USA This article discusses the semantics of the imperative mood (directive attitude) inward biblical Greek. The writer leads into this intelligence past times outset defining “semantics” (meaning) from the perspective of ii major interpretive paradigms that are operative inward electrical current linguistic studies of biblical Greek: the logical-philosophical paradigm, which undergirds Chomskyan linguistic theory, too the ethnographic-descriptive paradigm, which lies behind Hallidayan Systemic Functional Linguistics. The semantics of the imperative mood is too then discussed from each of these perspectives, too it is argued that an SFL approach to the imperative is the nigh linguistically defensible. Examples are provided from the New Testament. (Article) Keywords: Systemic functional linguistics, SFL, context, context of culture, context of situation, semantics, directive attitude, imperative mood, command

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