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January 2025
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June 2020
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In this study, we offer an exploratory factor analysis of three corpora of Greek texts from the Hellenistic era. We draw generalizations from the data about some of the chief patterns of morphosyntactic variation within these texts, under the theoretical assumption that these patterns are indicative of register variation. This variation realizes changes in the situational contexts that gave rise to each of the texts. We ultimately find that both our smaller corpus and our larger corpus indicate the same major factors of variation. We argue these patterns thus represent generalized situational parameters useful for characterizing these texts. At the same time, since these patterns are not reproduced through examination of the intra-textual chapters or sections of the generally balanced book, the Epistle to the Romans, we have argued that situational parameters are realized by the ratios of entire texts, as semantic units, rather than portions of texts, which are components of those units. The papyri and ostraca in our third corpus introduce a third level of analysis, allowing for a gradient distinction between literary and non-literary texts. This study serves as a point of reference for future analysis and demonstrates that intra-text units, such as the episode, chapter, or pericope, are not the correct units of analysis for identifying situational parameters, since such units are not indicative of the patterns of register variation observed across multiple corpora.
July 2018
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July 2018
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July 2018
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April 2016
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Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Jonathan Bernier recently responded to Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts' article on epistemology in jshj. In this rejoinder, Porter and Pitts expose Bernier's perpetual failure to understand the central terminology in this debate. Their response to Bernier reveals his clear confusion surrounding technical (even if basic) philosophical nomenclature in contemporary epistemology. Consequently, Bernier turns out to be just as committed to internalism as those he attempts to rescue from it. Their biggest disappointment, however, turns upon Bernier's inability to engage the central argument of their original article. Their case rested entirely upon the crippling Gettier-style counterexamples to internalism and, by extension, critical realism. Yet, Gettier never makes an appearance in Bernier's article. One can only speculate why Bernier would write an article-length response that neglects to address this argument. Whatever the cause, this oversight deeply undermines Bernier's entire project by leaving Porter and Pitts' original argument unscathed and firmly intact.
April 2015
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Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
N.T. Wright’s critical realist epistemology has become the foundation for many recent studies of Christian origins. This article argues that New Testament scholars have perhaps too quickly and uncritically adopted this method, when it is out of step with contemporary analytic epistemology. The method Wright employs—and which many have adopted—originates with an internalist epistemic account developed in the 1940s. Since then, key developments in the study of epistemology (beginning with Gettier in 1963) have made Wright’s critical realist model irrelevant in many ways. In light of these inadequacies, we tentatively outline some potential components of a more promising historical epistemology for the study of Christian origins.
January 2013
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... These same passages also suggest that 1-2 Timothy and Titus first circulated separately from a group of Paul's letters to (seven) churches, likely causing their thematic unity to be easily recognizable. 75 Above all else, they share an unflagging concern for "healthy teaching" (1 Tim 1.10; 2 Tim 4.3; Titus 1.9; 2.1; ὑγιαινούση διδασκαλία), not to mention a whole series of unique vocabulary. 76 Even if recent sensitivity to some of the stark differences among the three (particularly between The constant tagging of his opponents with this moniker from the Pastoral Paul is a way of challenging aberrant knowledge claims with the apostolic tradition. ...
January 2004
... Wright is not a Bultmannian; he rather links himself to the concept of critical realism (see Porter & Pitts 2015:278 regarding critical realism). He does not demythologize the Bible, but he is also of the opinion that many aspects of the references to heaven and hell are not consistent with the new realistic aspects of the Bible overall. ...
April 2015
Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus
... The Da Vinci Code is so determined to make its point about Mary Magdalene that it makes a number of preposterous claims for her, including that she is the Holy Grail (not the chalice), that this was taught by Jesus (!) and that this was depicted by Leonardo da Vinci in his The Last Supper, but that the Catholic Church has smeared her up until the present by depicting her as an evil woman … According to the New Testament, she was a woman from whom Jesus expelled demons, and who, as a close follower of Jesus, witnessed the crucifixion, Jesus' burial and the empty tomb, and to whom Jesus appeared. (Porter, 2005) As the Grail has been associated with many symbols, here the writer confirms that one of the disadvantages of the profession of the scientists of symbols is the constant attempt to extract hidden meanings from simple situations that do not carry any ambiguity. Therefore, he formed his novel through many symbols through which he reaches the holy grail, namely: the pink line, the five-pointed star, the Sonnière symbols on the floor of the Louvre, the Da Vinci painting The Vetroni Man, the Fibonacci sequence, the two letters P.S., the game of tarot, the sacred ratio PHI, the number 1. (Juhlin, 2018) Sophie recalls her ninth birthday, and while searching for her grandfather's gift, she finds in a drawer a shiny gold key tied to the end of the chain, which looks like none of the ordinary keys. ...