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Intermediate New Testament Greek: A Linguistic and Exegetical Approach is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Intermediate New Testament Greek is an excellent resource for the second-year Greek student, and for the minister wanting to use Greek more effectively in his teaching. Beyond merely presenting New Testament Greek grammar, the author focuses on helping students learn to use their knowledge of Greek in the exegesis of the New Testament. Moving past the surface structure of the language, Dr....

means “Shut the windows!”) In the New Testament, rhetorical questions are often equivalent to statements. For example, “What shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” (Matt. 16:26) conveys an emphatic negative declaration, “It will surely not be of any lasting benefit if a person gains the whole world and loses his soul.” Surface Structure and Deep Structure One way of analyzing the skewing in language is to posit a deep structure that corresponds to the intended
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