Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research

Porter, Stanley E. (Editor)/ Carson, D. A. (Editor)

ISBN 10: 147423173X / ISBN 13: 9781474231732

Published by Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 147423173X
• ISBN 13: 9781474231732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.5 kilograms

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Synopsis

This collection of essays brings together into one volume papers from the Society of Biblical Literature meetings in 1990 and 1991. This volume divides itself neatly into two sections. Part I, Verbal Aspect, includes two major presentations and responses on the topic of Greek verbal aspect. The subject is an important one, and one that promises not to go away in the next several years. If the proponents of the theory are correct, the semantic category of verbal aspect will prove vital to future analysis and exegesis of Greek, including that of the New Testament. Part II includes four substantial papers on various topics in Greek grammar and linguistics, including work on discourse analysis, construction grammar, the phrase as a constituent in Greek grammatical description and the possible Semitic origins of the finite verb with cognate participle. These interesting and varied essays are designed both to illustrate the current state of discussion of New Testament Greek grammar and to provide impetus for future research and publication.

About the Authors

Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Chris Keith is Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway. He is the author of The Pericope Adulterae, the Gospel of John and the Literacy of Jesus, a winner of the 2010 John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and Jesus' Literacy: Scribal Culture and the Teacher from Galilee. He is also the co-editor of Jesus among Friends and Enemies: A Historical and Literary Introduction to Jesus in the Gospels, and was recently named a 2012 Society of Biblical Literature Regional Scholar.

D.A. Carson is Research Professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Deerfield, Illinois.