A Linguistic Model to Analyze New Testament Greek

The study presents a model/teaching tool for a comprehensive step-by-step linguistic analysis of passages of the Greek New Testament. The book illustrates the method with a thorough analysis of all words in six passages covering chapter one of the Gospel of Mark: kind of word, full grammatical identification, possible syntactical functions, semantic meanings, and linguistic comments. The repeated steps of analysis suggest an order in which such a process can work best. The process also provides word fields, structural dynamics, and parallel patterns. The approach seeks to fill the gap between the plain Greek text as it stands before us and the work of interpretation. Students, teachers, and scholars will find this to be a foundational work for analyzing the Greek New Testament.

David Rhoads is Emeritus Professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is author of Reading Mark: Engaging the Gospel (2004). Troy Martin is Professor of Bible in the Department of Religious Studies at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He is author of Apostolic Confirmation and Legitimation in an Early Christian Faith Document: A Commentary on the First Epistle of the Apostle Peter (forthcoming).