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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...

It can be used to join two items of equal status—meaning, two noun phrases, two clauses, two paragraphs—and it’s going to be the default connective strategy used in nonnarratives, so meaning the Epistles and also in John’s Gospel. So that’s kind of a caveat. John’s Gospel follows the same rules as the Epistles.