The Language of the Greek New Testament: Classic Essays
in Library of New Testament Studies
Pages
238
Publisher
T&T Clark
Published
9/1/1991
ISBN-13
9780567120250
A collection of essays which address questions posed by the Greek of the New Testament documents themselves, in relation to the languages current in first-century AD Palestine. This anthology offers the reader a judicious and highly useful selection of the major statements of the twentieth century regarding the kind of Greek found in the New Testament. The essays are by such noteworthy scholars as Deissmann, Moulton, Torrey, Black, Fitzmyer, Gehman, Turner, Rydbeck and Silva.
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Greek of the New Testament as a Disputed Area of Research - Stanley E. Porter
- Hellenistic Greek with Special Consideration of the Greek Bible - Adolf Deissmann
- New Testament Greek in the Light of Modern Discovery - James Hope Moulton
- The Aramaic of the Gospels - Charles C. Torrey
- Aramaic Studies and the Language of Jesus - Matthew Black
- The Languages of Palestine in the First Century AD - Joseph A. Fitzmyer
- The Hebraic Character of Septuagint Greek - Henry S. Gehman
- The Language of Jesus and His Disciples - Nigel Turner
- On the Question of Linguistic Levels and the Place of the New Testament in the Contemporary Language Milieu - Lars Rydbeck
- Bilingualism and the Character of Palestinian Greek - Moïses Silva
- Index of References
- Index of Authors
Inner Books
This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently
- Introduction: The Greek of the New Testament as a Disputed Area of Research by Stanley E. Porter
- New Testament Greek in the Light of Modern Discovery by James Hope Moulton
- The Aramaic of the Gospels by Charles C. Torrey
- Aramaic Studies and the Language of Jesus by Matthew Black
- The Languages of Palestine in the First Century AD by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
- The Hebraic Character of Septuagint Greek by Henry Snyder Gehman
- The Language of Jesus and His Disciples by Nigel Turner
- On the Question of Linguistic Levels and the Place of the New Testament in the Contemporary Language Milieu by Lars Rydbeck
- Bilingualism and the Character of Palestinian Greek by Moisés Silva
- Hellenistic Greek with Special Consideration of the Greek Bible by Adolf Deissmann