Abstract
This article analyzes sociolinguistic as pects of three Semitic words used in the Gospel of John. Since all these words had wellestablished Hellenistic equivalents in the time of John's writing, their use may be interpreted as a deliberate attempt to establish additional points of contact with nonbelieving Jewish readers. In that case, the use of the convergent forms [~abbi,], [Messi,aj], and [~Wsanna,] in the Fourth Gos pel does not support the hypothesis of “antilanguage” in John and makes one reconsider the results of the research based on that concept.
Highlights
Yevgeny Ustinovich was born in 1976 in Sevastopol. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in English and German from the Crimean-American College and a Master’s degree in Practical Theology from Cincinnati Bible University. He is a Candidate in Germanic Languages and since 2009 has been working on his doctoral dissertation on “Semitisms in the Greek Language of the Gospel of John” through the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit in Leuven, Belgium
He works as a free-lance translator/editor and teaches at both the Crimean-American College and the Institute of Theology and Philosophy in Simferopol
Much has been said about the Aramaic substratum ascribed to the Fourth Gospel, but relatively little attention has been given to the socio-linguistic aspects of John’s Semitisms and even less to their relationship with their Hellenistic equivalents
Summary
Much has been said about the Aramaic substratum ascribed to the Fourth Gospel, but relatively little attention has been given to the socio-linguistic aspects of John’s Semitisms and even less to their relationship with their Hellenistic equivalents.
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