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LA211 Introducing New Testament Discourse Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Compare any languages and you’ll find they have similar tasks that need to be accomplished. Whether it’s creating anticipation, highlighting something important, or structuring the overall flow, the discourse devices that accomplish these tasks help us understand the meaning of the text. In this course, Dr. Runge helps you understand how these discourse devices function both in English and Greek...

So, when you come across development markers—whether it be οὖν, δέ, narrative τότε, whatever it would be—you need to look at what things are being connected. The only constraint that it brings is that it’s connecting two items of equal status, but you’ll need to decide what level of the discourse you’re connecting, whether it’s two subordinate clauses or two main clauses or two paragraphs.
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