The Notion of »holy« in Ancient Armenian Texts from the Fifth Century CE

Religious studies have long discussed the comparative notion of »holy« beyond religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries. In this book, Thomas Jurczyk conducts a diachronic comparison meaning application two notions their related word fields that are commonly associated with broader holy, namely Ancient Armenian term »surb« its words English field »holy«. To compare these semantic fields, his methodological approach operates on principle distributional semantics applies, among others, tools methods from corpus linguistics.