The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount - Softcover

Davies, W. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521291240 ISBN 13: 9780521291248

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1976

Synopsis

A work placing the Sermon on the Mount in the historical setting from which it emerged. Five settings are Matthew and the "Church," the world of Messianic expectations and Judaism, Gnosticism and the Dead Sea Sect, movements within the Church such as Paulinism, and the relation of the Sermon to the teachings of Jesus.

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About the Author

Janina Brutt-Griffler is Associate Professor of Foreign and Second Language Acquisition and Director of Polish Studies at The State University of New York, Buffalo. Prior to taking up her current position, she taught on the graduate faculty at the University of York, England. At the time of the symposium from which the current volume is drawn, she was Associate Professor of English and Linguistics at the University of Alabama. She is the author of "World English: A Study of Its Development," winner of the Modern Language Association's 2004 "Kenneth W. Mildenberger Prize," Her other publications include "Bilingualism and Language Pedagogy,"
Catherine Evans Davies is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Alabama. At the time of the symposium from which the current volume is drawn, she was director of the graduate programs in applied linguistics. Her work on cross-cultural interaction has appeared in "World Englishes, English for Specific Purposes, Text, Multilingua, the Journal of Pragmatics," and elsewhere.She served as president of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics in 2003-2004. Co-organizer of the NSF-funded decennial symposium on "Language Variety in the South" in 2004, she is currently co-editing the resulting volume under an NEH grant.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521291240
• ISBN 13: 9780521291248
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 561