Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice

In this volume, a leading expert brings readers up to date on the latest advances in New Testament Greek linguistics. Stanley Porter brings together a number of different studies of the Greek of the New Testament under three headings: texts and tools for analysis, approaching analysis, and doing analysis. He deals with a variety of New Testament texts, including the Synoptic Gospels, John, and Paul. This volume distils a senior scholar's expansive writings on various subjects, making it an essential book for scholars of New Testament Greek and a valuable supplemental textbook for New Testament Greek exegesis courses.

• Contents
• Introduction
• Part 1: Texts and Tools for Analysis
• 1. Who Owns the Greek New Testament? Issues that Promote and Hinder Further Study
• 2. Analyzing the Computer Needs of New Testament Greek Exegetes
• 3. "On the Shoulders of Giants"--The Expansion and Application of the Louw-Nida Lexicon
• 4. The Blessings and Curses of Producing a Lexicon
• Part 2: Approaching Analysis
• 5. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation
• 6. A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Exegesis
• 7. Sociolinguistics and New Testament Study
• 8. Discourse Analysis: Introduction and Core Concepts
• 9. The Ideational Metafunction and Register
• 10. Time and Aspect in New Testament Greek: A Response to K. L. McKay
• 11. Three Arguments Regarding Aspect and Temporality: A Response to Buist Fanning, with an Excursus on Aspectually Vague Verbs
• 12. The Perfect Tense-Form and Stative Aspect: The Meaning of the Greek Perfect Tense-Form in the Greek Verbal System
• Part 3: Doing Analysis
• 13. A Register Analysis of Mark 13
• 14. The Grammar of Obedience: Matthew 28:19-20
• 15. Verbal Aspect and Synoptic Relations
• 16. Study of John's Gospel: New Directions or the Same Old Paths?
• 17. Method and Means of Analysis of the Opponents in the Pauline Letters
• 18. 1 Timothy 2:8: Holy Hands or Holy Raising?
• 19. Greek Word Order: Is It Still an Unexplored Area?
• 20. Proper Nouns in the New Testament
• 21. Hyponymy and the Trinity
• Indexes