The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE
A Comparative Approach Using Digital Tools and Methods
Author(s)
Jurczyk, Thomas
Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Ancient Armenian; Comparative Notion of Holy; Conceptual History; Early Christianity; Corpus Linguistics; Digital Humanities; Religion; Language; History of Religion; Ancient History; Eastern European History; Bielefeld University PressISBN
9783839461815, 9783837661811, 9783743561816Publisher
Bielefeld University PressPublication date and place
Bielefeld, 2022Grantor
Imprint
Bielefeld University PressSeries
Digital Humanities Research,Classification
History of religion
Research methods: general
Ancient history: to c 500 CE
History of religion
Research methods: general
Ancient history