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The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE

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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 t...
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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.
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Price: $60.00
Pages: 380
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: Bielefeld University Press
Series: Digital Humanities Research
Publication Date: 27 May 2022
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837661811
Format: Paperback
BISACs: RELIGION / History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Europe / General
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Thomas Jurczyk (Dr.), born in 1985, studied history and religious studies in Bochum. He finished his Ph.D. in September 2020. Since 2014, he has worked as a research assistant at the »Center for Religious Studies« (CERES) at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His principal areas of interest are Greco-Roman religions, early Christianity, an/iconism, and the application of computational methods and tools.

Frontmatter 1
Editorial 2
Contents 5
List of Figures and Tables 7
Acknowledgements 17
Introduction 19
1.1 The Importance of Comparative Notions for the Study of Religion 22
1.2 Overall Structure of This Book 22
2.2 History of Armenia in the Fifth Century CE 25
2.3 The Notion of Holy in the Study of Religion 36
2.4 Historical Notions of Holy 50
2.5 Corpus Linguistics and Distributional Semantics 63
3.1 Introduction 65
3.2 Text Statistics 66
3.3 Synoptic Tables and Sentence Analysis 71
3.4 Annotation Scheme 74
4.1 Holy/Sacred English Corpus (HSEC) 79
4.2 Ancient Armenian Full Text Corpus (AAFTC) and Ancient Armenian Surb Corpus (AASC) 95
5.1 Armenian Corpora 107
5.2 English Corpora 203
Introduction 305
6.1 Examination of the Individual Semantic Fields 306
6.2 The Comparison 340
7.1 Results of the Individual Examinations 363
7.2 Overlappings between Surb, Holy, and the Comparative Notion of Holy 365
7.3 Contributions to the History of Religion and the Comparative Notion of Holy 367
7.4 Critical Review of the Methodology 370
Bibliography 371