Tag: Discourse Analysis

  • Putnam, A New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew

    Fred Putnam’s New Grammar of Biblical Hebrew is now out (affiliate disclosure). According to the publisher, This is a Hebrew grammar with a difference, being the first truly discourse-based grammar. Its goal is for students to understand Biblical Hebrew as a language, seeing its forms and conjugations as a coherent linguistic system, appreciating why and…

  • “Blessed Be the Ties that Bind”

    Cynthia Westfall has the latest article in the Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, “Blessed Be the Ties that Bind: Semantic Domains and Cohesive Chains in Hebrews 1.1–2.4 and 12.5–8.” Based on her investigation, Westfall concludes, [A]n analysis of semantic domains provides a vital lens through which we can view every text. At times, it…