The Lexham

Syntactic

Greek

New Testament

SBL Edition

Expansions and Annotations

(preliminary version 0.9)

Albert L. Lukaszewski, Ph.D.

General Editor
(Romans–Second Thessalonians, Hebrews–Revelation)

Mark Dubis, Ph.D.

Contributing Editor
(Matthew, John, Pastoral Epistles, Philemon)

J. Ted Blakley, Ph.D.

Contributing Editor
(Mark, Luke, Acts)

THE LEXHAM SYNTACTIC GREEK NEW TESTAMENT, SBL EDITION: EXPANSIONS AND ANNOTATIONS.

Copyright 2011 Logos Research Systems, Inc.

Preface to the SBL Edition

With the release of the The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition (SBLGNT) in late 2010, it made sense to create an edition of the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament based on the SBLGNT. The underlying source data has been converted, and areas that reflect differences between the UBS/NA edition and the SBLGNT have been reviewed.

We trust this resource will enhance your study and understanding of the New Testament.

Logos Bible Software
June 2011

Preface (2010 Edition)

Six years after Logos Bible Software began to work on the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament, the initial annotation of the entire Greek New Testament is complete.

Three different editors have provided annotation for the project:

Albert Lukaszewski: Romans, 1 & 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 & 2 Thessalonians, Hebrews, James, 1 & 2 Peter, 1–3 John, Jude, Revelation

Mark Dubis: Matthew, John, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon

J. Ted Blakley: Mark, Luke, Acts

We are grateful to these scholars for their contributions and particularly to Dr. Albert Lukaszewski for his efforts to set this project in motion. Without his work, the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament would not exist. With it, both students and scholars now have access to a complete annotation of the Greek New Testament that uses traditional terminology in its descriptions.

Logos Bible Software
July 2010

Introduction to the Preliminary Edition

The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament offers the user an unprecedented level of specifity and speed in searching and analysing the New Testament. Whereas previous generations of scholarship would require hours to find every incident of a given sentential structure or syntactic force in the Greek New Testament, modern users, being increasingly enabled by electronic databases, can find the same information in minutes.

This beta version of my syntactic analysis represents a single, three-part pass through the Pauline and Catholic Epistles. The annotations used were developed via a multi-stage process. First, a list of known grammatical phenomena was compiled by consulting both reference and intermediate grammars. These included the following:

Blass, Debrunner, and Funk’s A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature

H.W. Smyth’s Greek Grammar

D.B. Wallace’s Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics

Dana and Mantey’s A Manual Grammar of the Greek New Testament

S. Porter’s Idioms of the Greek New Testament

M. Zerwick’s Biblical Greek

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