Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics

Open Questions in Current Research

edited by

Stanley E. Porter

and

D.A. Carson

Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 80

Copyright © 1993 Sheffield Academic Press

Published by JSOT Press

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics:

Open Questions in Current Research.—

(JSNT Supplement Series, ISSN 0143-5108; No. 80)

I. Porter, Stanley E. II. Carson, D.A.

III. Series

487

ISBN 1-85075-390-3

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part I

Verbal Aspect

D.A. Carson

An Introduction to the Porter/Fanning Debate

Stanley E. Porter

In Defence of Verbal Aspect

Buist M. Fanning

Approaches to Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek: Issues in Definition and Method

Daryl D. Schmidt

Verbal Aspect in Greek: Two Approaches

Moisés Silva

A Response to Fanning and Porter on Verbal Aspect

Part II

Other Topics

Stanley E. Porter

An Introduction to Other Topics in Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics

Jeffrey T. Reed

To Timothy or Not? A Discourse Analysis of 1 Timothy

Paul Danove

The Theory of Construction Grammar and its Application to New Testament Greek

Micheal W. Palmer

How Do we Know a Phrase is a Phrase? A Plea for Procedural Clarity in the Application of Linguistics to Biblical Greek

Mark S. Krause

The Finite Verb with Cognate Participle in the New Testament

Index of References

Index of Authors

Preface

This collection, Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research, brings together into one volume papers first delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meetings in 1990 and 1991. These papers were all presented under the auspices of the then Consultation on Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics. This consultation was convened for the 1990 meeting, and, after two successful years, for the 1992 meeting has had its status elevated to that of a Section. It will continue in that capacity for at least the next five years.

When the original co-chairpersons of the Consultation, D.A. Carson and Stanley E. Porter, along with the two other original members of the steering committee, Daryl D. Schmidt and Moisés Silva, first discussed the possibility of instituting such a consultation, they did so because of a perceptible need within the discipline of New Testament studies and an apparent lack of opportunity at the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual meetings. The annual meeting consisted of a variety of sessions focused upon various biblical topics, many of them hermeneutical and methodological in nature. There were sessions addressing questions of Hebrew language and linguistics, but none devoted in their focus to questions related to Greek language and linguistics. This struck us as significant, since the failure to provide a venue for concentrated examination of one of the two major biblical languages could only ...

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About Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research

Do verbal tenses, such as aorist and imperfect, actually communicate a temporal reference—time—or do they communicate something else entirely—aspect? Or can the tenses sometimes communicate both time and aspect? The verbal aspect debate is one of the hottest topics in Biblical Greek linguistics. Edited by Stanley E. Porter and D.A. Carson, Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics brings together into one volume essays from scholars in the field of Greek and linguistics to examine the Greek language from a linguistic and grammatical perspective.

The first half of the book is devoted to verbal aspect, and includes essays by Stanley E. Porter and Buist Fanning, two central figures in the debate over verbal aspect. The second part of the book contains a potpourri of articles on other applications of modern linguistics to the Greek Bible, and includes essays by Jeffrey T. Reed, Paul Danove, Michael W. Palmer, and Mark S. Krause.

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