Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada. His latest book, with Matthew Brook O’Donnell, is Discourse Analysis and the Greek New Testament: Text-Generating Resources (2023).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Figures and TablesIntroduction to This Volume on Linguistic DescriptionsPart One: Linguistics and New Testament Study1. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study I: Linguistic Schools and Traditional Grammar2. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study II: Modern Linguistics and Its Schools of ThoughtPart Two: Systemic Functional Linguistics and New Testament Study3. Metaphor in the New Testament: Expressing the Inexpressible through Language within a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective 4. Rhetoric and Persuasion in the New Testament from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective5. Defining Cognition through Systemic Functional Linguistics System Networks and the Greek of the New Testament6. Orality and Textuality and Implications for Description of the Greek New Testament from a Systemic Function Linguistic PerspectiveConclusionBibliographyModern Author IndexAncient Sources Index

For anyone interested in the study of the New Testament in its original language – and what other legitimate way to study the New Testament could there be? – this publication proves to be an invaluable tool in itself.