A Relevant Way to Read: A New Approach to Exegesis and Communication

Sim, Margaret G.

ISBN 10: 1532603673 / ISBN 13: 9781532603679

Published by Pickwick Publications, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Relevant Way to Read: A New Approach to Exegesis and Communication
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532603673
• ISBN 13: 9781532603679
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In A Relevant Way to Read, Margaret G. Sim draws on her in-depth knowledge of New Testament Greek to forge a new exegesis of the Gospels and Paul's letters. Locating her studies in the linguistic concept of relevance theory, which contends that all our utterances are laden with crucial yet invisible context, Sim embarks on a journey through some of the New Testament's most troubling verses. Here she recovers lost information with a meticulous analysis that should enlighten both the experienced scholar and the novice. Whether discussing Paul's masterful use of irony to shame the Corinthians, or introducing the ground-breaking ideas behind relevance theory into a whole new field of study, the author demonstrates her vast learning and experience while putting her complex subject into plain words for the developing student.

About the Author

Margaret G. Sim is a linguist and biblical scholar who lectured for many years in Biblical Studies and Translation at Africa International University. She now works as a translation consultant for Wycliffe Bible Translators. Her other works include Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek: New Light from Linguistics on the Particles ἵνα and ὅτι (2011).