Hapax Legomena: A Neglected Field in Biblical Studies
The current essay offers an overview of major studies on hapax legomena in the MT, LXX and NT. The focus of the contribution is on the definition of hapax legomenon. Authors disagree as to whether the term should point to (a) a word found only once in a specific biblical corpus or to (b) a word occu...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2012
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Currents in biblical research
Year: 2012, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 264-274 |
| Further subjects: | B
Methodology
B Style B Philology B hapax legomena |
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| Summary: | The current essay offers an overview of major studies on hapax legomena in the MT, LXX and NT. The focus of the contribution is on the definition of hapax legomenon. Authors disagree as to whether the term should point to (a) a word found only once in a specific biblical corpus or to (b) a word occurring more than once as well as unique grammatical forms of a word as well as unique meanings. The present article defends that hapax legomenon should only be reserved for a word found only once in the MT, the LXX or the NT. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5200 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Currents in biblical research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/1476993X11398845 |