The language of the New Testament : context, history, and development / / edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts.

• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-; Pitts, Andrew W.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Linguistic Biblical Studies 6.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (535 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- The Language of the New Testament and Its History: An Introductory Essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Some Implications of Bilingualism for New Testament Exegesis / Jonathan M. Watt -- What Can We Learn about Greek Grammar from a Mosaic? / Stanley E. Porter -- Markan Idiolect in the Study of the Greek of the New Testament / Rodney J. Decker -- A Linguistic-Cultural Approach to Alleged Pauline and Lukan Christological Disparity / Frederick William Danker -- Atticism, Classicism, and Luke-Acts: Discussions with Albert Wifstrand and Loveday Alexander / Sean A. Adams -- 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 / Fredrick J. Long -- The Prague School of Linguistics and Its Influence on New Testament Language Studies / Jan H. Nylund -- A Brief History of Ancient Greek with a View to the New Testament / Jonathan M. Watt -- Varieties of the Greek Language / Christopher D. Land -- Greek Case in the Hellenistic and Byzantine Grammarians / Andrew W. Pitts -- The Atticist Grammarians / John A.L.E Lee -- Greek Word Order and Clause Structure: A Comparative Study of Some New Testament Corpora / Andrew W. Pitts -- The Function of the Imperfect Tense in Mark’s Gospel / Rodney J. Decker -- A Comparison of the Usages of διδωμι and διδωμι Compounds in the Septuagint and New Testament / Paul Danove -- Grammatical Developments of Greek in Roman Egypt Significant for the New Testament / Francis Gignac -- The Disclosure Formula in the Epistolary Papyri and in the New Testament: Development, Form, Function, and Syntax / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- 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 / Beth M. Stovell -- Indexes / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.