The Language of the New Testament

In The Language of the New Testament, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on the Greek language of the earliest Christians. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of the context, history or development of the language of the New Testament. The first section of the volume focuses on the social contexts and registers that provide the environment for language use and selection. The second section deals with issues surrounding the history of the Greek language and how its development has impacted the Greek found within the New Testament.

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Front Matter

The Language of the New Testament and Its History: An Introductory Essay

Some Implications of Bilingualism for New Testament Exegesis

What Can We Learn about Greek Grammar from a Mosaic?

Markan Idiolect in the Study of the Greek of the New Testament

A Linguistic-Cultural Approach to Alleged Pauline and Lukan Christological Disparity

Atticism, Classicism, and Luke-Acts: Discussions with Albert Wifstrand and Loveday Alexander

Roman Imperial Rule under the Authority of Jupiter-Zeus: Political-Religious Contexts and the Interpretation of ‘the Ruler of the Authority of the Air’ in Ephesians 2:2

The Prague School of Linguistics and Its Influence on New Testament Language Studies

A Brief History of Ancient Greek with a View to the New Testament

Varieties of the Greek Language

Greek Case in the Hellenistic and Byzantine Grammarians

The Atticist Grammarians

Greek Word Order and Clause Structure: A Comparative Study of Some New Testament Corpora

The Function of the Imperfect Tense in Mark’s Gospel

A Comparison of the Usages of διδωμι and διδωμι Compounds in the Septuagint and New Testament

Grammatical Developments of Greek in Roman Egypt Significant for the New Testament

The Disclosure Formula in the Epistolary Papyri and in the New Testament: Development, Form, Function, and Syntax

Seeing the Kingdom of God, Seeing Eternal Life: Cohesion and Prominence in John 3:1–15 and the Apocryphal Gospels in terms of Metaphor use

Indexes

Biographical Note

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles in the field of New Testament studies and related disciplines, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (2011).

Andrew W. Pitts is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Theology (New Testament) at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has published articles in journals such as JBL, JGRChJ and CBR, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes.

Readership

All interested in Hellenistic, Classical, and Koine Greek, New Testament, Linguistics, Atticism, Papyri