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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...

grammatical or syntactical structure. Other linguists, recognizing units beyond the sentence, wish to see this level or these levels as having structure, almost as if they have the same kind of syntax as a sentence does (supersentences, with reference to supersentential syntax). One can see that these differing perspectives have implications. The former approach recognizes something but categorizes it in such a way that makes description inherently problematic. This inevitably has a stultifying effect
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