Discourse Analysis and the New Testament Approaches and Results

by Porter, Stanley E.; Reed, Jeffrey T.

• ISBN13: 9781850759966
• ISBN10: 1850759960
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Sheffield Academic Pr

Summary

The volume contains contributions by many of the major discourse analysts of the New Testament, including E.A. Nida, W. Schenk, J.P. Louw and J. Callow. Some of these essays deal with methodology, raising necessary questions about what it means to analyse discourse. Others demonstrate an already committed approach by reading specific texts. A 'state-of-the-art' volume for all scholars interested in this increasingly important area of New Testament research.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 9
Abbreviations	p. 10
List of Contributors	p. 13
Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: An Introduction	p. 15
Theory and Method in Discourse Analysis
The Role of Context in the Understanding of Discourse	p. 20
The Cohesiveness of Discourse: Towards a Model of Linguistic Criteria for Analyzing New Testament Discourse	p. 28
Is Critical Discourse Analysis Critical? An Evaluation Using Philemon as a Test Case	p. 47
The Use of Annotated Corpora for New Testament Discourse Analysis: A Survey of Current Practice and Future Prospects	p. 71
Discourse Analysis and the Gospels and Acts
The Historic Present in Matthew: Beyond Speech Margins	p. 120
A Top-Down, Template-Driven Narrative Analysis, Illustrated by Application to Mark's Gospel	p. 140
Mark 5.1-43: Generating the Complexity of a Narrative from its Most Basic Elements	p. 169
The Testamental Disciple-Instruction of the Markan Jesus (Mark 13): Its Levels of Communication and its Rhetorical Structures	p. 197
Pronouns of Shame and Disgrace in Luke 22.63-64	p. 223
Participant Reference and Foregrounded Syntax in the Stephen Episode	p. 235
Naked and Wounded: Foregrounding, Relevance and Situation in Acts 19.13-20	p. 258
Discourse Analysis and the Pauline Corpus
The Damned and the Justified in Romans 5.12-21: An Analysis of Semantic Structure	p. 282
A Discourse Reading of Ephesians 1.3-14	p. 308
Some Constraints on Discourse Development in the Pastoral Epistles	p. 316
'Let No One Disregard You!' (Titus 2.15): Church Discipline and the Construction of Discourse in a Personal, 'Pastoral' Epistle	p. 334
Discourse Analysis and the General Epistles
Hebrews 6.4-6: From a Semiotic Discourse Perspective	p. 354
First John: Discourse Analyses and Interpretations	p. 369
Where Does 1 John 1 End?	p. 392
Index of References	p. 407
Index of Authors	p. 420
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