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Discourse Studies & Biblical Interpretation: A Festschrift in Honor of Stephen H. Levinsohn is unavailable, but you can change that!

Stephen H. Levinsohn is by no means the only SIL International member deserving recognition for significant contributions to the field of biblical studies; all too frequently such work goes unrecognized, even if it is appreciated in some quarters. The goal of this volume is to see that at least in Stephen’s case, his work receives the commendation that it deserves. Each of the contributors to...

Nevertheless, both McKay and Porter’s versions of stative aspect offer a vastly improved approach to the Greek perfect compared to the traditional view. A third alternative is to regard the Greek perfect as imperfective in aspect, as put forth by Evans and myself.33 Imperfective aspect is used to depict actions internally, as though unfolding. One of the strengths of the imperfective aspect approach to the perfect is that the 48 percent of perfects in the New Testament that are rendered by the ESV
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