Words have a history and make history. A word is like a character. It has an origin, an etymology, then it knows uses, in various circumstances; we can follow its trace and restore its curriculum vitae. The dictionary records in fact the uses of a word and specifies the contexts where it has intervened, it is a memory, a nuanced picture of its capacities to signify, a reserve for future borrowings. A word enters a sentence as in a play, it is known by its previous roles, it is costumed in a singular way to play a new scene but it is the plot in which it is introduced, where relationships with other words will be formed, which will build a specific identity for it. It brings meaning but it also takes the meaning of whoever happens to it.
The authors of this book, collaborators of the Cellule d'Animation Biblique in the Paris region, publish here, with slight modifications for the written version, some investigations around the words of the Bible that, for several years, they have presented and commented on during short radio broadcasts on Fréquence Protestante. Among many other possibilities, they have selected about twenty Greek words from the New Testament that have settled into our daily language, the Greek that you already speak in short...
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