A Discourse Analysis of Hebrews
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Discourse analysis, or text-linguistics, is an approach to interpreting Scripture that seeks to understand a discourse’s use of language and that examines the structure of the entire discourse. This method will be applied to Hebrews 10:19–25 in order to understand its basic meaning and function in the book of Hebrews. However, discourse analysis is not a long-standing, well defined, methodologically established discipline. Jeffrey Reed, in his article on “Discourse Analysis as a New Testament Hermeneutic,” writes that discourse analysis “is not easily defined” and has not had a “lasting, substantive impact on the whole of NT scholarship” (as of 1996). Therefore, before applying this approach to Heb 10:19–25, (1) discourse analysis will briefly be defined, (2) a description of its basic presuppositions and purposes will be given, and (3) the method of discourse analysis that will be followed in this paper will be articulated.
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