The Multilingual Jesus and the Sociolinguistic World of the New Testament with Special Reference to the Gospel of Matthew
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Multilingualism of AncientPalestine and of Jesus -- Defining the Issue and Problem -- Outline and Contribution of the Study -- The Use of the Gospel of Matthew -- Chapter 1 The Languages of Ancient Palestine and of Jesus-P...
| Summary: | Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Multilingualism of AncientPalestine and of Jesus -- Defining the Issue and Problem -- Outline and Contribution of the Study -- The Use of the Gospel of Matthew -- Chapter 1 The Languages of Ancient Palestine and of Jesus-Previous Discussion -- Introduction -- Linguistic Varieties and Their Status and Social Functions -- The Greek Language of the New Testament -- The Use of Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Sociolinguistics and the New Testament -- Introduction -- Sociolinguistic Approaches to the New Testament-PreviousStudies -- A Sociolinguistic Approach to the Multilingualism of AncientPalestine-New Proposal -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Sociolinguistic Landscape of Ancient Palestine -- Introduction -- Ancient Palestine as a Multilingual Society -- Language Contact, Language Maintenance and Shifts, Language Decline, and Language Death in Ancient Palestine -- Dialect Geography, Language Boundary, and Isogloss with Reference to the Geography and Inhabitants of Ancient Palestine -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Sociolinguistic World of Jesus -- Introduction -- The Fixed (Standard) Social Domains of Ancient Palestine and Their Corresponding "Default" Languages -- The Social Network of Jesus -- Jesus' Multilingual Proficiency -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Jesus' Multilingualism in the Gospel of Matthew -- Introduction -- Variable Social Domains -- Ethnography of Communication -- Procedure for the Analysis of the Gospel of Matthew -- Sociolinguistic Rules for the Language Selection in Ancient Palestine -- Analysis of the Type of Language Use in the Gospel of Matthew -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: Final Remarks and Implications of This Study -- Summary Findings -- Implications for New Testament Research -- Appendix 1 Map of Ancient Palestine Appendix 2 Procedural Flowchart of the Probable-Language Selection in a Speech Event or Situation -- Appendix 3 The Social Network of Jesus with Reference to the Gospel of Matthew -- Appendix 4 Summary List of Speech Events of the Use of the Languages of Ancient Palestine with Reference to the Gospel of Matthew -- Bibliography -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Index of Modern Authors |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (434 p) |
| ISBN: | 9004304797 |