Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek

Margaret G. Sim is an International Translation Consultant with SIL and has been lecturing in New Testament at Africa International University since 1992.

• Foreword by Larry W. HurtadoAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Theoretical Basis for Study3. Independent Clauses Introduced by ἴνα4. Requests, Commands, Prayers Introduced by ἴνα5. Noun Clauses Introduced by ἴνα6. Purpose Clauses Introduced by ἴνα7. Investigating ὅτι8. Diachronic Use of ἴνα9. ConclusionBibliographyScripture and Ancient Sources IndexAuthor Index

"This timely and fascinating study is of interest, not only to biblical scholars, but also to those interested in linguistic theory. Margaret Sim's original study of the 'purpose' marker 'hina' utilises the notion of metarepresentation, familiar from Relevance Theory, to provide new insight into the interpretation of certain key texts in the Gospels. In so doing, she shows how the ideas of theoretical pragmatics can be brought to bear on the study of other fields to enable new and exciting perspectives to be opened up on difficult problems of translation and interpretation." --Ronnie Cann, University of Edinburgh "A model dissertation accounting for an important, long-ignored question. Literary and non-literary extra-biblical sources have been considered and the perspective is diachronic, distinguishing earlier and later usage from that of the New Testament. It is grounded in linguistic theory but free of jargon and intelligible to those not trained in Linguistics." --Carl W. Conrad, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri "This is a major, innovative thesis in which insights from linguistic study (Relevance Theory) are used to free our understanding of the Greek particle 'hina' from the shackles of a fixed lexical meaning to one that is based on the communicator's intention, thus widening its scope from the traditional translation as 'in order that' (purpose). The implications of this carefully argued monograph for the interpretation of theological texts in the New Testament, especially those that are generally assumed to deal with divine purposes, are highly significant." --I. Howard Marshall, University of Aberdeen