The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpretation and how a close collaboration between hermeneutics and linguistics can help to solve them. The chapters display Porter's work in both fields, examining how hermeneutics functions as a field in modern biblical studies, and how the quest for meaning in biblical texts is underpinned by the study of linguistics. The volume focuses on context for understanding the meanings of biblical texts. Porter suggests that linguists can learn more from the philosophical questions around meaning that hermeneutics apply in their study of biblical texts, and that there is more fruitful work to be done in the field of hermeneutics using insights from linguistics.

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Porter, Stanley E.

Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.

T&T Clark; Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury Academic

Cassell

T&T Clark library of New Testament Greek, 3, London, UK, 2023

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

1, PS, 2024

Cover
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
LIST OF FIGURES
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
Introduction An Orientation to Hermeneutics
PART ONE Hermeneutics and the Problems of Interpretation
CHAPTER ONE What Constitutes Hermeneutics Today?
INTRODUCTION
APPROACHES TO HERMENEUTICS AND ITS MAJOR FIGURES
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWO What Difference Does Hermeneutics Make in Biblical Interpretation?
INTRODUCTION
THREE HERMENEUTICAL MODELS IN BIBLICAL STUDIES
ASSESSMENT OF THE THREE HERMENEUTICAL MODELS
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE Where Is the Locus of Meaning?
INTRODUCTION
FOUR LOCI OF MEANING
THE QUESTION OF AUTHORIAL INTENTION
CONCLUSION
PART TWO Linguistics and Solutions to the Problems of Interpretation
CHAPTER FOUR The Meaning of Meaning
INTRODUCTION
THREE MODELS OF LINGUISTIC MEANING
LEXICOGRAMMAR AND SEMANTICS
JOHN 1:1: ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE TEXT
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FIVE The Question of Context
INTRODUCTION
CONTEXT IN NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES
CONTEXT OF CULTURE AND THE SAPIR-WHORF HYPOTHESIS
SPEECH-ACT THEORY AND CONTEXT OF SITUATION
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER SIX A Functional Model of Context
INTRODUCTION
CO-TEXT AS CONTEXT
CONTEXT OF SITUATION
CONTEXT OF CULTURE
THE SYSTEMIC-FUNCTIONAL METHOD AND DETERMINATION OF MEANING
JOHN 1:1 AND ITS CONTEXTS
CONCLUSION
PART THREE Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVEN A Single Horizon Hermeneutics
INTRODUCTION
HORIZONS, CIRCLES, AND SPIRALS OF INTERPRETATION
THE IMPLICATIONS OF A SINGLE HORIZON HERMENEUTICS
SINGLE HORIZON HERMENEUTICS, MEANING, AND INTERPRETATION
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MODERN AUTHORS INDEX
ANCIENT SOURCES INDEX

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2024-05-17