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This grammar sets the Greek of the New Testament in the context of Hellenistic Greek and compares and contrasts it with the classical norms. It relates the New Testament language to its Semitic background, to Greek dialects, and to Latin and has been kept fully abreast of latest developments and manuscript discoveries. It is at no point exclusively dependent on modern editions of the Greek New...

INTRODUCTION (1) ‘NEW TESTAMENT GREEK’ 1. Special treatment of the grammar of New Testament Greek has been prompted for the most part by purely practical needs. Theological exegesis and textual criticism have always required an exact analysis of the language of the NT, more exact than was afforded by the classical grammars of the language as a whole. When pursued independently, the ‘NT language’ as a special idiom could more easily be divorced from developments in the language elsewhere, just as,
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