The Semantics of Biblical Language¶
Barr, J. (1961). The Semantics of Biblical Language. Oxford University Press.
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- Etymological fallacy
- The corrective in serious translation work is lexical: establish meaning from contemporaneous usage and context, not from morphological ancestry.
This sourceBarr's The Semantics of Biblical Language holds that a word's value is determined from current usage rather than etymology, with etymology only supplementing the study of recorded usage.
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“the two kinds of argument, from the [morphological]-syntactical structure and from the lexical”
- The corrective in serious translation work is lexical: establish meaning from contemporaneous usage and context, not from morphological ancestry.
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