Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice
Overview
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 Paul’s epistles. This volume distills a senior scholar’s expansive writings on various subjects, making it an essential book for scholars of New Testament Greek and a valuable supplemental textbook for New Testament Greek exegesis.
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- Examines linguistic issues in select passages from the Johannine writings, the Pauline corpus, and the Synoptic Gospels
- Identifies and explains linguistic tools for conducting rigorous exegesis
- Shows how to use exegetical tools to optimize linguistic study
- Texts and Tools for Analysis
- Who Owns the Greek Text of the New Testament? Issues That Promote and Hinder Further Study
- Analyzing the Computer Needs of New Testament Greek Exegetes
- “On the Shoulders of Giants”: The Expansion and Application of the Louw-Nida Lexicon
- The Blessings and Curses of Producing a Lexicon
- Approaching Analysis
- Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation
- A Multidisciplinary Approach to Exegesis
- Sociolinguistics and New Testament Study
- Discourse Analysis: Introduction and Core Concepts
- The Ideational Metafunction and Register
- Time and Aspect in New Testament Greek: A Response to K. L. McKay
- Three Arguments regarding Aspect and Temporality: A Response to Buist Fanning, with an Excursus on Aspectually Vague Verbs
- The Perfect Tense-Form and Stative Aspect: The Meaning of the Greek Perfect Tense-Form in the Greek Verbal System
- Doing Analysis
- A Register Analysis of Mark 13: Toward a Context of Situation
- The Grammar of Obedience: Matthew 28:19–20
- Verbal Aspect and Synoptic Relations
- Study of John’s Gospel: New Directions or the Same Old Paths?
- Method and Means of Analysis of the Opponents in the Pauline Letters
- 1 Timothy 2:8: Holy Hands or Holy Raising?
- Greek Word Order: Still an Unexplored Area in New Testament Studies?
- Proper Nouns in the New Testament
- Hyponymy and the Trinity
Porter has produced numerous excellent books on New Testament Greek and has shown himself to be a master of Greek grammar, syntax, idiom, and text. In this latest study he draws on his masterly learning and prodigious reading and research in this area to examine such subjects as discourse analysis, structural linguistics, sociolinguistics, verbal aspect, word order, and hyponymy.
—Anthony C. Thiselton, emeritus professor of Christian theology, University of Nottingham
No one in recent decades has matched Stanley Porter in the breadth of his interests in linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Some have worked on, say, verbal aspect theory or on discourse analysis or on sociolinguistics, but Porter has worked on all three and on several other subdisciplines as well—and this both at the theoretical level and at the level of the exegesis of specific biblical texts.
—D.A. Carson, research professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Porter succeeds in taking the mystery out of linguistics! His book is brilliant in conception and rich with examples and exegetical insight. Students, pastors, and veteran interpreters will benefit from this book.
—Craig A. Evans, Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College
Porter makes a compelling case for New Testament students to familiarize themselves with principles of modern linguistics. For those who already have such an introduction, the book makes an excellent intermediate-level textbook for a class or seminar.
—Craig Blomberg, Craig Blomberg, distinguished professor of New Testament, Denver Seminary
- Title: Linguistic Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Studies in Tools, Methods, and Practice
- Author: Stanley E. Porter
- Publisher: Baker
- Publication Date: 2015
- Pages: 448
- Christian Group: Evangelical
- Resource Type: Collected Essays
- Topic: New Testament
Stanley E. Porter (1956–) is a respected expert in Greek and New Testament studies. He received a BA from Point Loma College, an MA from Claremont Graduate School, another MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and a PhD from the University of Sheffield.
Porter is best known for his works on verbal aspects in New Testament Greek. He is a respected expert in Greek and New Testament studies worldwide, and is actively involved in OpenText.org and the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek. He is also a regular columnist for Christian Week.
Porter currently serves as president, dean, and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College. He is the author or editor of numerous studies in the New Testament and Greek language, including Idioms of the Greek New Testament, Discourse Analysis and the New Testament: Approaches and Results, and Dictionary of New Testament Background.
