Many linguistic tools and methods are applied to biblical texts in order to gain meaning from them. Such applications do not always take into account the perspective of the investigators, the presupposutions of the methods used and the nature of the material to which it is applied. These are all factors that influence the meaning obtained from the text. This work combines a critical account of long-established approaches to Hebrew meanings with a lucid introduction to newer and more recent methods such as lexical semantics and text-linguistics. It considers textual transmission, comparative philology, diachronic and dialectical variation, and the impact this has on the relationship between the reader, author and text. This volume provides an in-depth analysis.
Rev. Sue Groom is the Vicar of St. Matthew's Yiewsley. She has a degree in Applied Linguistics, an M. Phil in Computer Speech and Language Processing and an M.A. in Aspects of Biblical Interpretation.
