James Barr assessed : evaluating his legacy over the last sixty years
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James Barr assessed : evaluating his legacy over the last sixty years
(Biblical interpretation series, v. 192)
Brill, c2021
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James Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best known for his The Semantics of Biblical Language. Barr's Semantics, although first published in 1961, still generates animated discussion of its claims. However, over his lengthy career Barr published significant scholarship on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr's contribution to biblical studies sixty years after the publication of his first and still memorable volume on biblical semantics. As a result, this volume includes essays on major topics such as the Hebrew language, lexical semantics, lexicography, the Septuagint, and biblical theology.
Table of Contents
Preface
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Notes on Contributors
James Barr's Life and Legacy: An Introduction
Stanley E. Porter
part 1: Hebrew Language and Old Testament
Linguistics, Philology, and the Text of the Old Testament
Robert D. Holmstedt
Comparative Philology and the Hebrew Language: Aspects of James Barr's Critique
John F. A. Sawyer
part 2: Lexical Semantics and Biblical Philology
James Barr's Biblical Words for Time Revisited
John Barton
James Barr on the 'Illegitimate Totality Transfer': Word-Concept Fallacy
Alan E. Kurschner
James Barr and the State of the Biblical Lexicon
David Arthur Lambert
Post-Semantics Commentary Writing: Romans 3:21-26 as an Example Text
Benjamin J. Baxter
The Semantics of Biblical Language: Reflections from Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics
Gene L. Green
part 3: Lexicography
James Barr, Semantic Domains, and the Mental Lexicon
Sean A. Adams
Building on the Shoulders of Giants: A Data-Driven Approach to Word Sense Differentiation
Randall K. J. Tan and Andi Wu
part 4: Septuagint
The Semantics of Septuagint Language: Greek Comprehensibility and Its Hebrew Referent
Ryder Wishart
The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr's Semantics and Septuagint Studies
Darlene M. Seal
part 5: Biblical Theology
Was James Barr Wrong? Assessing His Critics on Biblical Theology
Stanley E. Porter
James Barr and Erroneous Method in Biblical Theology: Paul and the Gift as a Test Case
David I. Yoon
Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources
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