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Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, ... more Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, Kentucky.
FULFILLING THE LAW APART FROM THE LAW: A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO PAUL AND THE LAW IN ROMANS Randall... more FULFILLING THE LAW APART FROM THE LAW: A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO PAUL AND THE LAW IN ROMANS Randall Kheng Juan Tan, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004 Chairperson: Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner This dissertation represents a prolegomena to a new approach to the study of the Greek New Testament, with VOJlOC; in Romans as a test case. Chapter 1 introduces the seemingly intractable interpretive debates concerning the Mosaic Law. Chapter 2 outlines an integrative model of understanding language-systemicfunctional linguistics (SFL)-that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory-corpus linguistics using the annotation database of Opentext.org project. Chapter 3 develops a number of tools on the basis of SFL and corpus linguistics as supporting pillars for text analysis. Specifically, it provides a map on what to study in a text and how to do it. Chapter 4 illustrates the methods developed in chapter 3 and introduces the reader ...
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2001
From “scissors and paste” collectors to individual composers or theologians—thus has been the shi... more From “scissors and paste” collectors to individual composers or theologians—thus has been the shift in scholars’ perception of the role of the evangelists in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels. 1 Whereas source criticism fragments the Gospels into diverse hypothetical sources and form criticism delves into the oral period behind the text, redaction criticism investigates the theological emphases of the evangelists. Yet, is the transition complete? Has the evangelists’ role in composition ever been sufficiently defined, so that vigorous differentiation of redaction from tradition is possible? Or has the notion that such criticism of the text is possible been no more than an illusion? Is it not better to deal with the completed text as it stands rather than to seek to distinguish what is no longer distinguishable with confidence? Did the authors ever intend for their conveyed meanings to be divined by means of an attempt to go back to their sources? Or did they embody their meani...
Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, ... more Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, Kentucky.
Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, ... more Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, Kentucky.
FULFILLING THE LAW APART FROM THE LAW: A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO PAUL AND THE LAW IN ROMANS Randall... more FULFILLING THE LAW APART FROM THE LAW: A DISCOURSE APPROACH TO PAUL AND THE LAW IN ROMANS Randall Kheng Juan Tan, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2004 Chairperson: Dr. Thomas R. Schreiner This dissertation represents a prolegomena to a new approach to the study of the Greek New Testament, with VOJlOC; in Romans as a test case. Chapter 1 introduces the seemingly intractable interpretive debates concerning the Mosaic Law. Chapter 2 outlines an integrative model of understanding language-systemicfunctional linguistics (SFL)-that forms the foundation of this study and the central pillar for the application of that theory-corpus linguistics using the annotation database of Opentext.org project. Chapter 3 develops a number of tools on the basis of SFL and corpus linguistics as supporting pillars for text analysis. Specifically, it provides a map on what to study in a text and how to do it. Chapter 4 illustrates the methods developed in chapter 3 and introduces the reader ...
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 2001
From “scissors and paste” collectors to individual composers or theologians—thus has been the shi... more From “scissors and paste” collectors to individual composers or theologians—thus has been the shift in scholars’ perception of the role of the evangelists in the composition of the Synoptic Gospels. 1 Whereas source criticism fragments the Gospels into diverse hypothetical sources and form criticism delves into the oral period behind the text, redaction criticism investigates the theological emphases of the evangelists. Yet, is the transition complete? Has the evangelists’ role in composition ever been sufficiently defined, so that vigorous differentiation of redaction from tradition is possible? Or has the notion that such criticism of the text is possible been no more than an illusion? Is it not better to deal with the completed text as it stands rather than to seek to distinguish what is no longer distinguishable with confidence? Did the authors ever intend for their conveyed meanings to be divined by means of an attempt to go back to their sources? Or did they embody their meani...
Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, ... more Tan also serves on the pastoral leadership team of a multinational church fellowship in Grayson, Kentucky.