Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament: New Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics (T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek)

by Stanley E. Porter

Publisher:

T&T Clark

, 2023

Overview

Stanley E. Porter provides descriptions of various important topics in Greek linguistics from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective; an approach that has been foundational to Porter’s long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek.

Deep insights into Porter’s understanding of SFL are displayed throughout, based either upon how he positions SFL in relation to other linguistic models, or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies. Porter reflects on his core approach to the Greek New Testament by exploring subjects such as metaphor, rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and traditional grammar.

Key Features

• Provides descriptions of various important topics in Greek linguistics from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective
• Reflects on his core approach to the Greek New Testament
• Explores subjects such as metaphor, rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality

Contents

• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Figures and Tables
• Introduction to This Volume on Linguistic Descriptions

Part One: Linguistics and New Testament Study

• 1. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study I: Linguistic Schools and Traditional Grammar
• 2. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study II: Modern Linguistics and Its Schools of Thought

Part Two: Systemic Functional Linguistics and New Testament Study

• 3. Metaphor in the New Testament: Expressing the Inexpressible through Language within a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective
• 4. Rhetoric and Persuasion in the New Testament from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective
• 5. Defining Cognition through Systemic Functional Linguistics System Networks and the Greek of the New Testament
• 6. Orality and Textuality and Implications for Description of the Greek New Testament from a Systemic Function Linguistic Perspective
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Modern Author Index
• Ancient Sources Index

Product Details

• Title: Linguistic Descriptions of the Greek New Testament: New Studies in Systemic Functional Linguistics
• Author: Stanley E. Porter
• Series: T&T Clark Library of New Testament Greek
• Volume: 1
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Pages: 222
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Language, style; Functionalism (Linguistics); Systemic grammar; Greek language, Biblical › Grammar
• ISBNs: 9780567710017, 9780567710024, 9780567710048, 0567710017, 0567710025, 0567710041
• Resource ID: LLS:LNGSTCDSLNGSTCS
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-24T18:29:19Z

About Stanley E. Porter

Stanley E. Porter, PhD, University of Sheffield, has taught for more than 30 years in post-secondary institutions in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. He is a Greek and New Testament expert, and, since 2001, has been the president, dean, and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He's best known for his works on verbal aspects in New Testament Greek, is actively involved in OpenText.org and the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek, and is a regular columnist for Christian Week.

Porter is the author or editor of numerous New Testament and Greek studies, including Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results, and Dictionary of New Testament Background. He has edited over 80 volumes and authored 28 books on various New Testament and related topics, including How We Got the New Testament: Text, Transmission, Translation, and The Gospel of John in Modern Interpretation. Plus, he's published more than 450 journal articles, chapters in books, and dictionary entries and regularly speaks at major conferences and other venues around the world.

His interests include Greek language and linguistics, hermeneutics and various methods of interpretation, and a range of New Testament studies from the Gospels to John to Acts to Paul. He is also a papyrological and text-oriented research specialist and is interested in the wider Greco-Roman world. Outside of academia, Stanley has served in young adult ministry and has assisted in developing a lay training institute for the local church.