Gospels or Biographies? the Gospels as Folk Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-68068-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 633 g

Reihe: Linguistic Biblical Studies

This series is dedicated to the development and promotion of the linguistically-informed study of the Bible in its original languages. Biblical studies has greatly benefited from modern theoretical and applied linguistics, but stands poised to benefit from further integration of the two fields of study. Most linguistics has studied contemporary languages and attempts to apply linguistic methods to the study of ancient languages requires systematic re-assessment of their approaches. This series is designed to address such challenges, by providing a venue for linguistically-based analysis of the languages of the Bible. As a result, monograph-length studies and collections of essays in the major areas of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and comparative linguistics will be encouraged and any theoretical linguistic approach will be considered, both formal and functional. Primary consideration is given to the Greek of the New and Old Testaments and of other relevant ancient authors, but studies in Hebrew, Coptic, and other related languages will be entertained as appropriate.

The series has published an average of two volumes per year over the last five years.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wishart, Ryder

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christlicher Gesang, Kirchenmusik, Gebetsbücher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 From Form to Genre

1 Genre Criticism before Form Criticism

2 Form instead of Genre

3 Redaction instead of Form

4 Literature instead of Redaction

5 Genre instead of Form or Redaction

6 Summary

2 From Genre to Register

1 The Consensus View’s Model of Genre

2 Burridge’s Model of Genre

3 Burridge’s Selection Bias

4 Problems with Burridge’s Criteria for Genre Classification

5 Register as the Confluence of Sociological and Genre Criticism

6 Summary

3 A Proposal Regarding the Gospels as Folk-Literature Collections

1 Can the Gospels Be Considered Folklore?

2 Can Gospel Be Considered a Genre?

3 Can Gospel Be Considered a Register?

4 Folk Literature Collections

5 Summary

4 A Methodology for Analyzing Situations to Describe What Texts Do

1 Methodological Steps

2 Situations as Contextual Configurations

3 Situation Boundaries

4 Dynamic Situations

5 Methodological Tools

6 Summary

5 Patterns of Situational Variation in the Gospels

1 Variation in the Gospel Pericopes

2 Summary

6 Types of Situations in the Gospels

1 Situation Types

2 Summary

7 What Does a Gospel Do?

1 Logistics and Definitions Relating to Discourse Patterns

2 Analyzing Language for Grammatical Register Probabilities

3 The Likely Situational Contexts of the Gospels

4 Summary

Conclusion

Appendix: Example Data

Bibliography

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Ryder A. Wishart, PhD (2023), McMaster Divinity College, has edited and published on a number of subjects including Greek grammar, computational linguistics, New Testament studies, Pauline studies, and theology.