Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures

This volume continues the major work published by the JSNT Supplement Series in the area of Greek linguistics of the New Testament, and explores what the editors believe are crucial phases in the application of linguistics to New Testament Greek. The first half of the volume includes essays on such topics as linguistics and literary criticism, linguistics and historical criticism, and linguistics and rhetoric. The second half includes essays dealing with the relations and uses of individual words, but ranges from oral composition to the value of word frequency in determining authorship. Some of these essays review established models of research; others propose new models and criteria of linguistic analysis.

• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Part I Linguistics and ...
  • An introduction to introductions - D.A. Carson
  • Boats in the bay: reflections on the use of linguistics and literary analysis in biblical studies - George H. Guthrie
  • Modern linguistics and historical criticism: using the former for doing the latter - Jeffrey T. Reed
  • Linguistics and rhetorical criticism - Stanley E. Porter
• Part II Words on Words
  • Words on words - Stanley E. Porter
  • Oral biblical criticism: raw data in Philippians - Casey W. Davis
  • The two Johannine verbs for sending: a study of John's use of words with reference to general linguistic theory - Andreas J. Köstenberger
  • Verbs of experience: toward a lexicon detailing the argument structures assigned by verbs - Paul Danove
  • Linguistic fingerprints or style by numbers?: the use of statistics in the discussion of authorship of New Testament documents - Matthew Brook O'Donnell.
• Index of References
• Index of Authors
• Copyright