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James Barr (1) (1924–2006)

Autor de The Semantics of Biblical Language

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James Barr was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Hebrew Bible at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, where he taught for ten years. His illustrious teaching career has also included professorships at Edinburgh University, Princeton Theological Seminary, Manchester University, and Oxford mostrar más University. He has held visiting professorships and delivered major lecture series in Europe, the United States, Africa, Israel, Australia, and New Zealand, and was longtime editor of the Journal of Semitic Studies. mostrar menos

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Nombre canónico
Barr, James
Fecha de nacimiento
1924-03-20
Fecha de fallecimiento
2006-10-14
Género
male
Nacionalidad
UK
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento
Claremont, California, USA
Ocupaciones
Biblical scholar
theologian
minister
professor
Organizaciones
Church of Scotland

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Great book on the abuses and proper way to use the original languages. It warns against the errors that Scholars and preachers still commit to this day
 
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Teddy37 | 4 reseñas más. | Jun 9, 2021 |
Although I enjoyed reading these essays, yet I disagree with some of Barr's views concerning scripture and tradition.
 
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Hany.Abdelmalek | 4 reseñas más. | Sep 16, 2020 |
Although I enjoyed reading these essays, yet I disagree with some of Barr's views concerning scripture and tradition.
 
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Hany.Abdelmalek | 4 reseñas más. | Sep 16, 2020 |
One of the odder offshoots of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (at least notionally; it's unclear whether there was any direct influence) was the thesis that Biblical Hebrew represented, grammatically, a different way of thinking (and was, accordingly, intrinsically superior at mediating divine revelation).

Barr demolishes the supposed linguistic bases of this claim handily. After Barr, arguments regarding, for example, the relative superiority or inferiority of argument in a philosophical mode - one of the drivers behind the original claims - has to rest on other grounds than claims of "Semitic thought-forms".

Barr's work is of continuing use as a reminder of the risks in dabbling in technical areas when one has more enthusiasm than expertise, when a genuine expert may be waiting in the wings.
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