II Linguistics is one of the fields that has erupted with torrential force in the twentieth century. Strangely, the power of that flood is only now beginning to wash over New Testament studies. It is also dividing into many distinguishable streams, sub-disciplines that develop their own journals and experts and arcane jargon, with the result that the entire field can seem terribly daunting to those who have spent little time exploring it. Although one of the purposes of the Biblical Greek Language