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My interest in linguistics and its application to ancient Greek texts began during my undergraduate studies where I was able actually to minor in what is a rare interdisciplinary pursuit: modern linguistics and ancient Greek. From that time, I have spent nearly eight years of formal and personal study of both subjects, while at the same time specializing in New Testament studies. I have continued to pursue modern linguistics because of what I believe is its direct theoretical and practical relevance to New Testament studies, despite the fact that linguistics has had only marginal impact on mainstream biblical scholarship for various reasons, some of which will be addressed in this work. The tide seems to be changing, however.

The first part of this work sets forth a hermeneutical model of linguistic discourse analysis for Hellenistic Greek texts. It is a ‘hermeneutic’ because it seeks to understand the production and interpretation of New Testament texts. It is ‘linguistic’ because it focuses on the communicative role of Greek language in New Testament discourse. It is based on the theory of ‘discourse analysis’ broadly represented in various social-scientific disciplines such as linguistics, sociology, anthropology and psychology, ...

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About A Discourse Analysis of Philippians: Method and Rhetoric in the Debate over Literary Integrity

In Part 1 of Reed’s Discourse Analysis of Philippians he supplies an introduction to discourse analysis and includes a sketch of its history before presenting a model of its use in analyzing the New Testament. He explains how discourse analysis can be used in systemic-functional linguistics and in the study of presuppositions and functional grammar in the New Testament. In Part 2, Reed carefully details the literary integrity, structure, and texture of Philippians while providing the reader with an introduction to ancient letter writing and epistolary theory. His voluminous citations of papyrus examples help illustrate his points, and two appendices offer more important information for understanding Paul’s letter to the believers in Philippi.

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