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Pauline Language and the Pastoral Epistles: A Study of Linguistic Variation in the Corpus Paulinum

by Jermo Van Nes

  • Hardback
  • 556 pages
  • Publisher: Brill
  • 17 x 23.8 x 3.5 cm

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For theology students and New Testament researchers

Uses statistical linguistics to analyse authorship

Help you move past old debates about the Epistles

An insightful linguistic study challenging traditional views on the authorship of the Pastoral Epistles.

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In Pauline Language and the Pastoral Epistles Jermo van Nes questions the common assumption in New Testament scholarship that language variation is necessarily due to author variation. By using the so-called Pastoral Epistles (PE) as a test-case, Van Nes demonstrates by means of statistical linguistics that only one out of five of their major lexical and syntactic peculiarities differs significantly from other Pauline writings. Most of the PE's linguistic peculiarities are shown to differ considerably in the Corpus Paulinum, but modern studies in classics and linguistics suggest that factors other than author variation account equally if not better for this variation. Since all of these explanatory factors are compatible with current authorship hypotheses of the PE, Van Nes suggests to no longer use language as a criterion in debates about their authenticity.
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  • Title

    Pauline Language and the Pastoral Epistles: A Study of Linguistic Variation in the Corpus Paulinum

  • Author

    Jermo Van Nes

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Brill

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    940g

  • Page Count

    556

  • Dimensions

    17 x 23.8 x 3.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9789004358416

  • ISBN-10

    9004358412

  • Eden Code

    4709103