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Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice is unavailable, but you can change that!

Leading scholar Stanley Porter brings readers up to date on the latest advances in New Testament Greek linguistics. Porter bundles a variety of studies of the New Testament’s original language under three rubrics: texts and tools for analysis, approaching analysis, and doing analysis. He deals with multiple of New Testament texts, including passages from the Synoptic Gospels, John’s writings, and...

of a single register; diachronic descriptions tracing the evolution of a single register; synchronic descriptions of the patterns of variation among multiple registers; and diachronic descriptions tracing changes in the patterns of variation among multiple registers.”49 Some of the register studies mentioned above can legitimately be called register studies. However, some of them might be better called genre studies, since they focus upon a particular linguistic form, such as poetry or the language
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