Linguistics and Philology—Separate, Overlapping or Subordinate/Superordinate Disciplines? Linguistic and Philological Perspectives: Papers forming part of the 2017 and 2018 SBL Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew Seminar

Jacobus A. Naudé; Cynthia Miller-Naudé

doi:10.25159/2663-6573/8573

Authors

Jacobus A. Naudé University of the Free State, South Africa
Cynthia Miller-Naudé University of the Free State, South Africa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6573/8573

Keywords:

linguistics, philology, complexity, academic discipline, Biblical Hebrew

Abstract

In this paper, we explore arguments concerning the disciplinarity of linguistics and philology as fields of academic knowledge. We begin with a brief historical overview of philology and linguistics. We then consider the question of whether linguistics and philology in the twenty-first century should be viewed as separate disciplines or as overlapping disciplines, or whether one discipline—philology—should be viewed as a superordinate discipline which subsumes linguistics.

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