Modeling Biblical Language ─ Selected Papers from the Mcmaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle

Modeling Biblical Language collects the best linguistic scholarship of present and former members of the McMaster Divinity College Linguistics Circle, addressing a variety of interpretive and theoretical issues facing Old/New Testament studies from the perspective of modern linguistic theory.

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President and Dean, Professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous books and articles on the Greek language, linguistics, and New Testament studies, including Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament (2015). Gregory P. Fewster is a doctoral student at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada, and a graduate of McMaster Divinity College. He is the author of Creation Language in Romans 8 (Brill, 2013) and co-editor ofPaul and Pseudepigraphy (Brill, 2013). Christopher D. Land, Ph.D. (2013), McMaster Divinity College, is Assistant Professor of New Testament and Linguistics at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author ofThe Integrity of 2 Corinthians and Paul’s Aggravating Absence (2015) and co-editor ofPaul and His Social Relations (Brill, 2012). Contributors are: Mary L. Conway, Zachary K. Dawson, Gregory P. Fewster, Benjamin B. Hunt, Christopher D. Land, Hughson T. Ong, Francis G.H. Pang, Stanley E. Porter, Tony Pyles, Jeffrey Reber, Beth M. Stovell, Xiaxia E. Xue.