| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Linguistic biblical studies ; v. 2 |
|
Linguistic biblical studies ; v. 2
|
| Contents |
Preface; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Chapter One Introduction; A. Methodology; B. Frame and Mark; C. The Scope and Procedure of Study; PART ONE ORAL-AURAL COMMUNICATION AND FRAMES; Chapter Two Mark's Written Gospel, Orality-Aurality, and Memory; Chapter Three Memory Resources of the Markan Oral-Aural Narrative: Frames; Chapter Four Frame Theory; PART TWO THE APPLICATION OF FRAME THEORY TO MARK'S ORAL-AURAL NARRATIVE; Chapter Five Frames and the Organization of the Controversy Stories (Mark 2.1-3.6); Chapter Six Frames and the Processing of the Controversy Stories (Mark 2.1-3.6) |
| Summary |
This book is a study of the New Testament using the insights of modern linguistics. Its principal concern, above all, is to examine how the Gospel of Mark, produced in an oral-aural culture, may be illuminated by frame theory from cognitive linguistics, a linguistic theory in which the meaning of a word, phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph and thematic unit can only be properly understood against the background of a particular body of knowledge and assumptions. The reason this theory is particulary useful for understanding Mark's ancient text is because as an oral-aural narrative it heavily re |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bible -- Hermeneutics.
|
|
Bible. Mark, II, 1-III, 6 -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
|
|
Bible. Mark, II, 1-III, 6 -- Language, style
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| LC no. |
2009035702 |
| ISBN |
1282951114 |
|
9047443926 (electronic bk.) |
|
9781282951112 |
|
9789047443926 (electronic bk.) |
|
