We call your attention to a recently published book involving both D33 bloggers, Stan as a co-editor and contributor, and Dave as a contributor:

Porter, Stanley E., Christopher D. Land, and James D. Dvorak, eds. Putting the Pieces Together: Formalizing Units and Structures in the Biblical Languages. MNTS 11. Eugene, OR: MDC Press/Pickwick, 2024.

This volume is a collection of selected papers that were originally presented at the 2018 Bingham Colloquium held on June 15 at McMaster Divinity College, the 22nd Bingham Colloquium held at MDC. That year, the colloquium was hosted by MDC’s Centre for Biblical Linguistics, Translation, and Exegesis, which also hosts a monthly Linguistics Circle during the academic year.

This is admittedly a more technical volume on Greek and Hebrew linguistics, as the contributors aimed to advance the linguistic study of the Bible in their respective papers. The co-editors write in the preface:

The major tenets of linguistics have often been either unknown or certainly neglected or overlooked in such language study [as in previous generations]. As a result, synchronic notions such as language as system, the importance of difference to establish meaning, the need to push to higher ranks or strata of language, and, above all, the role of function and meaning have often been absent. This volume attempts to address some of these issues by providing new insights into how such important linguistics notions play an important role in our understanding of Greek and Hebrew, and thereby provide a basis for not just language learning but language description. (pp. xvii–xviii)

The Table of Contents is as follows:

Putting the Pieces Together: An Introduction to This Volume — Stanley E. Porter, Christopher D. Land, and James D. Dvorak

1. Linguistic Theory in Hebrew and Greek Language Study — Stanley E. Porter

2. A Systemic Account of Biblical Hebrew Prepositions: Circumstantial Particles from a Monosemic Perspective in Habakkuk — David J. Fuller

3. Chaining and Wrapping: The Quantitative and Qualitative Economies of Greek Syntax — Ryder A. Wishart

4. A Multi-Dimensional Model of the System of Conjunction for the Greek of the New Testament — Zachary K. Dawson

5. “It’s Probably Untrue, but It Wouldn’t Matter Anyway”: Εἰ καί Conditions in the Greek New Testament — Mark Proctor

6. Defining Definers: An Exploration into the Functions of Attributive Adjectives in Koine Greek — James D. Dvorak

7. A Method for Identifying Speech Functions in Koine Greek: Galatians 2:11–21 as a Test Case — David I. Yoon

8. Information Structure in the Greek of the New Testament — Doosuk Kim

9. Cohesive Harmony in Acts 15:1–35 — William Craig Price

10. A Proposal for Systemic Functional Linguistics Register Theory as a Septuagint Commentary Writing Tool — John J.H. Lee

I didn’t get to sit in on all of the sessions for that conference, so it will be enlightening to be able to read these papers in their final forms, all having interesting titles.

— David I. Yoon