Mark's memory resources and the controversy stories (Mark 2:1-3:6)
Subtitle: an application of the frame theory of cognitive science to the Markan oral-aural narrative
By: by Yoon-Man Park.
Series: Linguistic biblical studies -- v. 2
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9789004179622
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Mark II, 1-III, 6 -- Language, style; Bible. -- N.T. -- Mark II, 1-III, 6 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible -- Hermeneutics
Description: This book is to study the New Testament from the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark procuded in oral-aural cultures may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and a thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assmptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark's ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily relies on human memory(cognitive) resources; and so the cogntive theory leads us into a better understanding of ways in which the text is communicated in terms of cognitive processing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.