Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible
Subtitle: The Importance of Context
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2025
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780567709943
Subjects: Bible, criticism, interpretation, etc.
Description: <b>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.</b> 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.