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Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: May 12th, 2021, 4:18 am
by Matthew Longhorn
No table of contents yet, but dealing with the septuagint, lexicography and linguistics. Many of us will have read Barr’s work, so could be of interest to people. I will update when I find a table of contents
James 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.
https://brill.com/view/title/60248?rsk ... I&result=1
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: May 18th, 2021, 4:31 am
by Stephen Carlson
Thanks for that. There's no table of contents yet, but this is the contributor list:
Contributores: Sean A. Adams, John Barton, Benjamin J. Baxter, Gene L. Green, Robert D. Holmstedt, Alan E. Kurschner, David Arthur Lambert, Stanley E. Porter, John F. A. Sawyer, Darlene Seal, Randall K. J. Tan, Andi Wu, Ryder A. Wishart, David I. Yoon
As far as I can tell, all the NT scholars in this list, except for Gene Green, are associated with McMaster Divinity.
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: May 18th, 2021, 4:35 am
by Matthew Longhorn
Stephen Carlson wrote: ↑May 18th, 2021, 4:31 am
Thanks for that. There's no table of contents yet, but this is the contributor list:
Contributores: Sean A. Adams, John Barton, Benjamin J. Baxter, Gene L. Green, Robert D. Holmstedt, Alan E. Kurschner, David Arthur Lambert, Stanley E. Porter, John F. A. Sawyer, Darlene Seal, Randall K. J. Tan, Andi Wu, Ryder A. Wishart, David I. Yoon
As far as I can tell, all the NT scholars in this list are associated with McMaster Divinity.
So a possible mild SFL slant on things?
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: May 18th, 2021, 4:53 am
by Stephen Carlson
Matthew Longhorn wrote: ↑May 18th, 2021, 4:35 am
So a possible mild SFL slant on things?
Yes, I'd assume an SFL slant (except for Gene Green, just corrected above).
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: June 30th, 2021, 10:19 am
by Matthew Longhorn
Table of contents just posted on Brill
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
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: June 30th, 2021, 7:48 pm
by Stephen Carlson
Thanks for that. I’m not too enamoured with the Barr retrospective, given how old he is and how much change there’s been, but the pieces by Green, Tan & Wu, and Wishart seem interesting.
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: August 19th, 2021, 4:48 am
by Matthew Longhorn
This has now been published (on e-book). I have a copy of the paper version ordered so might post some interesting quotes from it when I get it so folks have a feel for what sort of position is being taken on things
https://brill.com/view/title/60248?rske ... &result=81
You can read the preface at
https://brill.com/view/book/9789004465664/front-7.xml
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: August 19th, 2021, 9:45 am
by Daniel Semler
I'm reading Barr right now, so I'll be interested in how you find this. There look to be some interesting articles in it
Thx
D
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: September 13th, 2021, 5:26 pm
by Stephen Carlson
I saw a post by a contributor to this volume that he drafted his contribution to it 14 years ago, and it took that long to publish. Do the contributions to it look out of date (not that there’s been much work on Barr since then)?
Re: Porter et al - James Barr Assessed
Posted: September 14th, 2021, 2:47 am
by Matthew Longhorn
That is worrying that things are that old!
My copy still hasn’t arrived. Sent them a chaser email yesterday. Will try to have something sensible to post when it does get here