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The Notion of "holy" in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE: A Comparative Approach Using Digital Tools and Methods
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Abstract Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of "holy" beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, the author conducts a diachronic comparison of the meaning and application of two notions and their related word fields that are commonly associated with a broa... view more
Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of "holy" beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, the author 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.... view less
Classification
Science of Literature, Linguistics
General History
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free 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
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Publisher
Bielefeld University Press
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
380 p.
Series
Digital Humanities Research, 5
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839461815
ISSN
2749-1986
ISBN
978-3-8394-6181-5
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed