The Language of the New Testament: Context, History, and Development

Name: The Language of the New Testament: Context, History, and Development
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ISBN: 9789004234772

ISBN-10: 9004234772

ISBN-13: 9789004234772

Edition: 2013

Authors: Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts

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In The Language, of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of the context, history or development of the language of the New Testament The first section of the volume focuses on the social contexts and registers that provide the environment for language use and selection. The second section deals with issues surrounding the history of the Greek language and how its development has impacted the Greek found within the New Testament. Book jacket.

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List price: $189.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Binding: Cloth Text
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English



Preface


List of Contributors


The Language of the New Testament and Its History: An Introductory Essay



Context


Some Implications of Bilingualism for New Testament Exegesis



What Can We Learn about Greek Grammar from a Mosaic?



Markan Idiolect in the Study of the Greek of the New Testament



A Linguistic-Cultural Approach to Alleged Pauline and Lukan Christological Disparity



Atticism, Classicism, and Luke-Acts: Discussions with Albert Wifstrand and Loveday Alexander



Roman Imperial Rule under the Authority of Jupiter-Zeus: Political-Religious Contexts and the Interpretation of the Ruler of the Authority of the Air' in Ephesians 2:2



The Prague School of Linguistics and Its Influence on New Testament Language Studies



History


A Brief History of Ancient Greek with a View to the New Testament



Varieties of the Greek Language



Greek Case in the Hellenistic and Byzantine Grammarians



The Atticist Grammarians



Development


Greek Word Order and Clause Structure: A Comparative Study of Some New Testament Corpora



The Function of the Imperfect Tense in Mark's Gospel



A Comparison of the Usages of ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ and ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Compounds in the Septuagint and New Testament



Grammatical Developments of Greek in Roman Egypt Significant for the New Testament



The Disclosure Formula in the Epistolary Papyri and in the New Testament: Development, Form, Function, and Syntax



Seeing the Kingdom of God, Seeing Eternal Life: Cohesion and Prominence in John 3:1-15 and the Apocryphal Gospels in Terms of Metaphor Use



Index of Modem Authors


Index of Ancient Sources