modern linguistics, in particular what it is saying regarding the Greek of the New Testament. If it is to have the kind of impact upon New Testament studies as it is having within the field of modern linguistics, New Testament scholars will have to come to terms with the recent developments in Greek language theory and modify their view of Greek grammar and language in general.29 Although discourse analysis is in many ways still in its primary development, to aid in getting a feel for its state of
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