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A Grammar of New Testament Greek, Volume 3: Syntax is unavailable, but you can change that!

With the death of W. F. Howard in 1952, responsibility to continue Moulton’s grammar fell to Nigel Turner. A careful and cogent addition, Turner’s Syntax continues the preceding volumes’ legacy of exceptional scholarship, with one difference. Turner’s analysis suggests that “Biblical Greek is a unique language with a unity and character of its own.” Unlike Moulton, Turner emphasizes the...

a wide variety in the use of ἵνα, imperatival, causal, consecutive, epexegetical, within so small a space. Other instances of the unique character of Bibl. Greek abound in peculiarities of word-order1, in asyndeton2 and parataxis3, in the use of proleptic pronouns4, and in the pleonastic insertion of personal pronouns5, as well as in many other smaller and less significant ways. I do not wish to prove too much by these examples, but the strongly Semitic character of Bibl. Greek, and
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