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The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis is unavailable, but you can change that!

For the past 25 years, debate regarding the nature of tense and aspect in the Koine Greek verb has held New Testament studies at an impasse. The Greek Verb Revisited examines recent developments from the field of linguistics, which may dramatically shift the direction of this discussion. Readers will find an accessible introduction to the foundational issues, and more importantly, they will...

infelicitous translation of the word вид.111 It would be preferable to define aspect more literally, as the temporal phase or phases about which the speaker or writer is speaking, rather than the phases they have “in view.” Johnson takes just such an approach, building on Reichenbach’s work on tenses and that of Bennett and Partee on aspect and truth conditions.112 She distinguishes “three categories of time which are significant in relation to an act of speaking.” The “speech time” (S) is “the time
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