Digitized CV | Biblical Studies, Linguistics, Theology

Publications

Hierarchical and Distributional Lexical Field Theory

A critical assessment of Louw and Nida’s semantic domain theory and suggestions for ways this theory can be developed in a more empirical direction.

Intertextuality beyond Echoes: Cain and Abel in the Second Temple Jewish Cultural Context

Arguing for a more culturally grounded approach to the use of the Old Testament in the New, without relying on "echoes"

Examining the linguistic registers of multiple Hellenistic Greek corpora

The Future of New Testament Lexicography

Remodelling New Testament lexicography in a corpus-linguistic and computational, vector-based way

Paul’s Use of Νόμος: Torah, Law, or Custom?

Lexical analysis of νόμος, arguing glosses like "custom" should be the default assumption.

John

A truly text-oriented commentary in the New Testament Discourse Analysis Commentaries series from Pickwick (Wipf & Stock).

Words and More

Stan Porter and I are contracted with Baker Academic to contribute this volume on lexical semantics to their forthcoming Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar series.

Topic Modelling Experiments

I join a researcher from Greece to experiment with topic modelling tools for Greek texts.

An Emerging Account of Biblical Law

I argue that the changing view of Old Testament law fits the way law works in the New Testament as well—both are a common-law tradition.

Semantic Domains and Lexical Fields

I propose a new way to study semantic domains.

Monosemy for Biblical Studies

I lay out just how we should be studying biblical words.

Monosemy in Biblical Studies

I criticize and appreciate some recent work on studying words in New Testament Greek.

Paul and the Law

I figure out why Paul seems so ambivalent about biblical law.

Education

PhD: McMaster Divinity College

PhD in Christian Theology supervised by Christopher D. Land and Stanley E. Porter; dissertation title: "The Polarizing Gospel Genre and Register"

MA: McMaster Divinity College

I graduated in 2017 with my Master of Arts in Christian Studies in Hamilton. My thesis was on linguistics for New Testament Greek, entitled "Monosemy and Polysemy in Biblical Studies."

BA: Moody Bible Institute

I studied Bible and Biblical Languages in Chicago, graduating in Spring 2015.

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Presentations and Conference Papers

Technology, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Columbia School Linguistics

Columbia School Linguistics Seminar. Columbia University, New York. 1 December 2023

Biographies or Folk Literature? Revisiting the Gospel-Genre Debate

Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 21 November 2023.

Presentation of Clear Bible and the MACULA Project

2023 Presentation of Clear Bible and the MACULA Project. Bible Translation Computing Tools Expo. CanIL/Trinity Western, Langley, British Columbia

Unlocking Ancient Contexts: Using Embedded Texts in Episodic Narratives to Enable Comparative Register Analysis.

2022 conference presentation at Association Française de Linguistique Systémique Fonctionnelle 2022: Translation and Corpus Studies in SFL: Insights, Methods, Obstacles. Université de Paris, France

OpenText 2.0: A Stratified Annotation for Multi-Layer Searching

2019 Presentation at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Cain and Abel in Second Temple Jewish Culture: The Intertextual Negotiation of Social and Theological Values

2019 Presentation at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Approximating the Semantic Domains of Greek

2017 Presentation at Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting, Boston, MA

Paradigmatic Greek Syntax: Paradigm-Linkage in a Systemic Grammar Model

2018 Presentation at MDC Linguistics Circle, Ancaster, ON

Blass and Robertson: Comprehensive and Comparative Greek Grammars from the Modern Vantage Point

2018 Presentation at Heritage Theological Seminary, 6th Annual Meeting of the ETS Ontario/Quebec Region: The Holy Spirit and Revival, Cambridge, ON

Coordination and Wrapping: The Quantitative and Qualitative Economies of Greek Syntax

2018 Presentation at the H.H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament, Hamilton

Measuring Abstraction Using Word Embedding: Unsupervised Learning of Generic Categories

2018 Presentation at Canadian Society for the Digital Humanities Annual Meeting, Regina, SK

Does His ‘Former Way of Life in Judaism’ (Gal 1:13-14) Make Paul a Former Jew?: A Survey of the Key Exegetical and Interpretive Questions

2018 Presentation at Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Regina, SK

Particles as Syntactic Operators in Greek: Examining the Scope, Operation, and Annotation of Non-Inflecting Items with Application to Matthew 5:13-15

2018 Presentation at Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Annual Meeting, Regina, SK

The Strife of Systems?: The Grounds and Implications of Theological Diversity

2018 Presentation at McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton

Approximating the Semantic Domains of Greek: Correlating Semantics, Distributions, and Paradigms

2017 Presentation at MDC Linguistics Circle, Ancaster, ON

Paul’s Subjective Justification in its Historical and Legal Contexts

2017 Presentation at Heritage Theological Seminary, 5th Annual Meeting of the ETS Ontario/Quebec Region, Cambridge, ON

Story Worlds and the Truth: Contrasting the Fictions of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Lewis, and Tolkien Through the Sociology of Knowledge

2017 Presentation at the H.H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament, Hamilton

Paul’s Use of Νόμος: Torah, Law, or Custom?

2017 Presentation at Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society Annual Meeting, Akron, OH

Law and Ethics: Christianity’s Common-Law Ethical Tradition

2017 Presentation at McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton

Topic Modeling Experiments on Hellenistic Corpora

2016 Presentation at Indiana University, Corpora in the Digital Humanities seminar, Bloomington, IN

Modeling Monosemics: A Theoretical Outline for Biblical Studies

2016 Presentation at the MDC Linguistics Circle, Hamilton

The Future of New Testament Lexicography: Remodeling Relational Semantics and Componential Analysis Through Distributional Corpus Analysis

2016 Presentation at the H.H. Bingham Colloquium in New Testament, Hamilton

Paul and the Law: A Common-Law Proposal for Advancing the Debate

2016 Presentation at McMaster Divinity College Theological Research Seminar, Hamilton

‘Judged Under the Law of Liberty’: Austrian Economics and Impartial Mercy to the Poor in James 2:1–13 and the Modern Context

2019 Presentation at the Theological Research Seminar (McMaster)

Ryder A. Wishart

PhD, MA, BA