Thesis Chapters by Chris Drymon
By combining an Ancient Greek semantic domains database with a corpus of annotated Ancient Greek ... more By combining an Ancient Greek semantic domains database with a corpus of annotated Ancient Greek treebanks, one may observe semantic preferences of individual words or word combinations. This information may then be applied to phrases which contain a word of ambiguous sense with the possibility of disambiguating that word. The method was applied to John 1:5, 1 Corinthians 11:15, and the phrase εν τοις επουρανιοις which occurs throughout Ephesians. Due to the small size of the annotated Ancient Greek corpus and the limited capability of the existing Ancient Greek semantic domains database, disambiguation was inconclusive for the first two passages. In Ephesians, however, this method combined with some manual inspection demonstrated that επουρανιοις may very well be referring to heavenly beings rather than a heavenly place. This is a valuable insight which had previously been unanimously rejected by published Ephesians works on the basis of flawed logic and with no consideration of linguistic evidence.
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Thesis Chapters by Chris Drymon