James Barr Assessed

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has authored thirty volumes on a wide range of topics in the fields of New Testament studies, Greek language and linguistics, and related subjects.

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors



James Barr’s Life and Legacy: An Introduction

 Stanley E. Porter



part 1: Hebrew Language and Old Testament

Linguistics, Philology, and the Text of the Old Testament

 Robert D. Holmstedt



Comparative Philology and the Hebrew Language: Aspects of James Barr’s Critique

 John F. A. Sawyer



part 2: Lexical Semantics and Biblical Philology

James Barr’s Biblical Words for Time Revisited

 John Barton



James Barr on the ‘Illegitimate Totality Transfer’: Word-Concept Fallacy

 Alan E. Kurschner



James Barr and the State of the Biblical Lexicon

 David Arthur Lambert



Post-Semantics Commentary Writing: Romans 3:21–26 as an Example Text

 Benjamin J. Baxter



The Semantics of Biblical Language: Reflections from Relevance Theory and Lexical Pragmatics

 Gene L. Green



part 3: Lexicography

James Barr, Semantic Domains, and the Mental Lexicon

 Sean A. Adams



Building on the Shoulders of Giants: A Data-Driven Approach to Word Sense Differentiation

 Randall K. J. Tan and Andi Wu



part 4: Septuagint

The Semantics of Septuagint Language: Greek Comprehensibility and Its Hebrew Referent

 Ryder Wishart



The Septuagint as Translation: The Intersection of Barr’s Semantics and Septuagint Studies

 Darlene M. Seal



part 5: Biblical Theology

Was James Barr Wrong? Assessing His Critics on Biblical Theology

 Stanley E. Porter



James Barr and Erroneous Method in Biblical Theology: Paul and the Gift as a Test Case

 David I. Yoon



Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources