Linguistic Analysis of the Greek Ne

Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University of Sheffield) is president, dean, professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. He has authored or edited dozens of books, including How We Got the New Testament and Fundamentals of New Testament Greek.

• ContentsIntroductionPart 1: Texts and Tools for Analysis1. Who Owns the Greek New Testament? Issues That Promote and Hinder Further Study2. Analyzing the Computer Needs of New Testament Greek Exegetes3. "On the Shoulders of Giants"--The Expansion and Application of the Louw-Nida Lexicon4. The Blessings and Curses of Producing a LexiconPart 2: Approaching Analysis5. Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation6. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Exegesis7. Sociolinguistics and New Testament Study8. Discourse Analysis: Introduction and Core Concepts9. The Ideational Metafunction and Register10. Time and Aspect in New Testament Greek: A Response to K. L. McKay11. Three Arguments regarding Aspect and Temporality: A Response to Buist Fanning, with an Excursus on Aspectually Vague Verbs12. The Perfect Tense-Form and Stative Aspect: The Meaning of the Greek Perfect Tense-Form in the Greek Verbal SystemPart 3: Doing Analysis13. A Register Analysis of Mark 13: Toward a Context of Situation14. The Grammar of Obedience: Matthew 28:19-2015. Verbal Aspect and Synoptic Relations16. Study of John's Gospel: New Directions or the Same Old Paths?17. Method and Means of Analysis of the Opponents in the Pauline Letters18. 1 Timothy 2:8: Holy Hands or Holy Raising?19. Greek Word Order: Still an Unexplored Area in New Testament Studies?20. Proper Nouns in the New Testament21. Hyponymy and the TrinityIndexes