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Author Jurczyk, Thomas, author

Title The Notion of "holy" in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE : a comparative approach using digital tools and methods / Thomas Jurczyk
Published Bielefeld : Bielefeld University Press, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (380 pages)
Series Digital Humanities Research , 2749-1986 ; 5
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The Importance of Comparative Notions for the Study of Religion -- 1.2 Overall Structure of This Book -- 2. State of Research -- 2.2 History of Armenia in the Fifth Century CE -- 2.3 The Notion of Holy in the Study of Religion -- 2.4 Historical Notions of Holy -- 2.5 Corpus Linguistics and Distributional Semantics -- 3. Methodology -- 3.2 Text Statistics -- 3.3 Synoptic Tables and Sentence Analysis -- 3.4 Annotation Scheme -- 4. Data -- 4.1 Holy/Sacred English Corpus (HSEC) 4.2 Ancient Armenian Full Text Corpus (AAFTC) and Ancient Armenian Surb Corpus (AASC) -- 5. Examination -- 5.1 Armenian Corpora -- 5.2 English Corpora -- 6. Comparison -- 6.1 Examination of the Individual Semantic Fields -- 6.2 The Comparison -- 7. Conclusion -- 7.1 Results of the Individual Examinations -- 7.2 Overlappings between Surb, Holy, and the Comparative Notion of Holy -- 7.3 Contributions to the History of Religion and the Comparative Notion of Holy -- 7.4 Critical Review of the Methodology -- Bibliography
Summary Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of "holy" beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of two notions and their related word fields that are commonly associated with a broader comparative notion of holy, namely the Ancient Armenian term "surb" and its related words and the English word field associated with »holy«. To compare these two semantic fields, his methodological approach operates on the principle of distributional semantics and applies, among others, tools and methods from the field of corpus linguistics
Analysis Ancient History
Bielefeld University Press
Comparative Notion of Holy
Conceptual History
Corpus Linguistics
Digital Humanities
Early Christianity
Eastern European History
History of Religion
Language
Religion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes funded by Förderung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288)
In English
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Mai 2022)
Subject Holiness.
Armenian language, Classical -- Semantics
Corpora (Linguistics)
Holy, The.
History.
history (discipline)
RELIGION / History.
Holy, The
Holiness
Corpora (Linguistics)
History
Genre/Form Hochschulschrift.
Form Electronic book
Author Förderung Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) (SFB 1288) funder.
ISBN 9783839461815
3839461812