Diglossia and Other Topics in New Testament Linguistics (The Library of New Testament Studies)

The first part of this volume includes a summary of this important area of study in both Septuagintal and New Testament Greek, and a review of these issues in the context of linguistic research generally. A second part includes contributions on aspects of research into the Greek of both Testaments, featuring both new areas of research, such as critical discourse analysis, and more traditional issues such as the nature of the Septuagint translation. "The articles and short communications in this volume are based on papers presented to the Symposium on Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke held in Budapest in August of 1987. Besides participants at the meeting, three scientists who were invited but could not attend have also contributed chapters to this volume. A synopsis of the general discussion at the conference and a review chapter conclude this volume. To the readers of this book it will not be news that stroke is a worldwide problem. Efforts to cope with this often devastating condition are worldwide also, as attested by the international membership of the conference. It has been said of oxygen deficiency that it not only stops the machine, it also wrecks the machinery. The paramount question in stroke research is this: why can't the brain be restarted after a hypoxic episode in much the same manner as a motor car can when its gas tank is refilled after it stalled because it ran out of fuel? Participants at the Symposium had been requested in advance of the meeting to especially consider a series of specific questions in relation to this general problem. Among these specific questions were: the mechanism of synaptic blockade in hypoxic brain tissue; the transition from reversible to irreversible arrest of function; the nature of postischemic (delayed) cell death; the possible basic differences in the consequences of hypoxia and ischemia; and actual and potential approaches to the prevention and treatment of cell damage in hypoxia and stroke."--Publisher's website The articles and short communications in this volume are based on papers pre­ sented to the Symposium on Cerebral Hypoxia and Stroke held in Budapest in August of 1987. Besides participants at the meeting, three scientists who were invited but could not attend have also contributed chapters to this volume. A synopsis of the general discussion at the conference and a review chapter conclude this volume. To the readers of this book it will not be news that stroke is a worldwide problem. Efforts to cope with this often devastating condition are worldwide also, as attested by the international membership of the conference. It has been said of oxygen deficiency that it not only stops the machine, it also wrecks the machinery. The paramount question in stroke research is this: why can't the brain be restarted after a hypoxic episode in much the same manner as a motor car can when its gas tank is refilled after it stalled because it ran out of fuel? Participants at the Symposium had been requested in advance of the meeting to especially consider a series of specific questions in relation to this general problem. Among these specific questions were: the mechanism of synaptic blockade in hypoxic brain tissue; the transition from reversible to irreversible arrest of function; the nature of postischemic (delayed) cell death; the possible basic differences in the consequences of hypoxia and ischemia; and actual and potential approaches to the prevention and treatment of cell damage in hypoxia and stroke. Introduction: Diglossia and other topics in New Testament linguistics / Stanley E. Porter The current landscape of diglossia studies : the diglossic continuum in first-century Palestine / Jonathan M. Watt The question of diglossia in ancient Hebrew / Scobie P. Smith The functional distribution of Koine Greek in first-century Palestine / Stanley E. Porter Language repertoire and diglossia in first-century Palestine : some comments / Christina Bratt Paulston Translation technique in the Septuagint Leviticus / Dirk Büchner Of gutturals and Galileans : the two slurs of Matthew 26.73 / Jonathan M. Watt Language of change and the changing of language : a sociolinguistic approach to Pauline discourse / Jeffrey T. Reed Semantics and patterns of argumentation in the Book of Romans : definitions, proposals, data and experiments / Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell Ideology and point of view in Galatians 1-2 : a critical linguistic analysis / Edward Adams Designing and compiling a register-balanced corpus of Hellenistic Greek for the purpose of linguistic description and investigation / Matthew Brook O'Donnell