Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics
Overview
Diglossia is the existence within a society of sharply divergent formal and informal varieties of a language. Porter devotes the first part of this volume to the concept of diglossia, summarizing this important area of study in both the Septuagint and New Testament Greek. The second half of the book focuses on new aspects of research into the Greek of both Testaments, such as critical discourse analysis, and more traditional issues like the nature of the Septuagint translation.
Contributors
- Edward Adams
- Dirk Buchner
- Matthew Brook O'Donnell
- Christina Bratt Paulston
- Stanley E. Porter
- Jeffrey T. Reed
- Scobie P. Smith
- Jonathan M. Watt
Product Details
- Title: Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics
- Editor: Stanley E. Porter
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 305
About Stanley E. Porter
Stanley E. Porter has taught for over twenty years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the USA, and the UK. His publications include fourteen authored books and over 100 authored journal articles and chapters, along with various shorter pieces; he has also edited over 55 volumes. He remains a well-known and respected expert in Greek and the broader field of New Testament studies. He is currently the President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.
Sample Pages from the Print Edition
- Title: Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics
- Author: Stanley E. Porter
- Series: Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series
- Volume: 193
- Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2010
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Language, style; Diglossia (Linguistics)
- ISBNs: 9781841270913, 1841270911
- Resource ID: LLS:DIGLOSSIANTLIN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:35:49Z
Stanley E. Porter, PhD, University of Sheffield, has taught for more than 30 years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is a Greek and New Testament expert, and, since 2001, has been the president, dean, and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He's best known for his works on verbal aspects in New Testament Greek, is actively involved in OpenText.org and the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek, and is a regular columnist for Christian Week.
Porter is the author or editor of numerous New Testament and Greek studies, including Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results, and Dictionary of New Testament Background. He has edited over 80 volumes and authored 28 books on various New Testament and related topics, including How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation, and The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Plus, he's published more than 450 journal articles, chapters in books, and dictionary entries and regularly speaks at major conferences and other venues around the world.
His interests include Greek language and linguistics, hermeneutics and various methods of interpretation, and a range of New Testament studies from the Gospels to John to Acts to Paul. He is also a papyrological and text-oriented research specialist and is interested in the wider Greco-Roman world. Outside of academia, Stanley has served in young adult ministry and has assisted in developing a lay training institute for the local church.