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Book SynopsisJames Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best known for his The Semantics of Biblical Language. Barr’s Semantics, although first published in 1961, still generates animated discussion of its claims. However, over his lengthy career Barr published significant scholarship on a wide variety of topics within Old Testament studies and beyond. This volume provides an assessment of Barr’s contribution to biblical studies sixty years after the publication of his first and still memorable volume on biblical semantics. As a result, this volume includes essays on major topics such as the Hebrew language, lexical semantics, lexicography, the Septuagint, and biblical theology.
Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors James Barr’s Life and Legacy: An Introduction Stanley E. Porter part 1: Hebrew Language and Old Testament Linguistics, Philology, and the Text of the Old Testament Robert D. Holmstedt Comparative Philology and the Hebrew Language: Aspects of James Barr’s Critique John F. A. Sawyer part 2: Lexical Semantics and Biblical Philology James Barr’s Biblical Words for Time Revisited John Barton James Barr on the ‘Illegitimate Totality Transfer’: Word-Concept Fallacy Alan E. Kurschner James Barr and the State of the Biblical Lexicon David Arthur Lambert Post-Semantics Commentary Writing: Romans 3:21–26 as an Example Text Benjamin J. Baxter The Semantics of Biblical Language: Reflections from Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics Gene L. Green part 3: Lexicography James Barr, Semantic Domains, and the Mental Lexicon Sean A. Adams Building on the Shoulders of Giants: A Data-Driven Approach to Word Sense Differentiation Randall K. J. Tan and Andi Wu part 4: Septuagint The Semantics of Septuagint Language: Greek Comprehensibility and Its Hebrew Referent Ryder Wishart The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr’s Semantics and Septuagint Studies Darlene M. Seal part 5: Biblical Theology Was James Barr Wrong? Assessing His Critics on Biblical Theology Stanley E. Porter James Barr and Erroneous Method in Biblical Theology: Paul and the Gift as a Test Case David I. Yoon Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources
