Revision as of 2012 January
by MJ. Smith
Discourse Analysis
Alternate Labels
- Hermeneutics: discourse analysis
- Linguistics: discourse analysis
Web Links
Key Passages
Reading List
Introductory
- Wikipedia: Discourse analysis
- Current Trends in Biblical Hermeneutics | Jack K. Willsey at 2000 NARBC Preaching Seminar
- Text as a Guide to Authorial Intention: An Introduction to Discourse Criticism | Robert D. Bergen in JETS
- Modern Linguistics versus Traditional Hermeneutics | Robert L. Thomas in TMSJ
- Discourse Analysis: Its History, Tenets, and Application in Evangelical Biblical Scholarship | William K. Bechtold III
- A Summary of Discourse Theory | by M. James Sawyer (short introductory article on bible.org)
Example studies
- Discourse Analysis and the Interpretation of Gen 2:4-7 | Jack Collins in Westminster Theological Journal
- Discourse Analysis of Directive Texts: The Case of Biblical Law | Anne E. Garber Kompaoré
- Discourse Analysis of the Book of Titus | Corey Keating
- A Hierarchy of Clauses in Biblical Hebrew Narrative | Eep Talstra from Vrije Universiteit
- The Verbs of Esther: A Discourse Analysis of a Post-Exilic Text | Jill Riepe
- ‘In the beginning’ of Biblical Hebrew Discourse: Genesis 1:1 and the Fronted Time Expression | Nicolai Winther-Nielsen from University of Lund
- Discourse Analysis and Interpretation: A Test Case in Matthew 24–25 | Annika Ralston from Örebro Theological Seminary
- A Discourse Analysis of Hebrews 10:19–25 | Matthew McDill
- A Discourse Analysis of Jesus’ Conversation with the Samaritan Woman | by Gbadeyan Adeleke Oluwayomi
- Jesus Stills the Storm: An Examination of Mark 4:35-41 Using Discourse Analysis | Wayne T. Slusser
Examples informed by discourse analysis
- Reading Biblical Hebrew Poetry Linguistic Structure or Rhetorical Device? | Eep Talstra from Vrije Universiteit
- Syntactic Analysis of Jonah | A Niccacci
- The Structure of Titus: Criss-cross Chiasmus as Structural Marker | Kevin Gary Smith from South African Theological Seminary
- The Semantics of Verbal Pragmatics: Clarifying the Roles of Wayyiqtol and Weqatal in Biblical Hebrew Prose | John A. Cook in Journal of Semitic Studies
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