The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis

1344 Pages·2016·9.3 MB·English

by  Steven E. Runge

The Greek Verb Revisited
A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis
Steven E. Runge &
Christopher J. Fresch
Editors
Proceedings of the
Linguistics and the Greek Verb Conference,
Cambridge University, 2015
The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis Edited by Steven E. Runge and
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Contents Abbreviations
Foreword
ANDREAS J. KÖSTENBERGER
Introduction
Bibliography
Overview
Chapter 1: Porter and Fanning on New Testament Greek Verbal Aspect:
Retrospect and Prospect
BUIST FANNING
Bibliography
Chapter 2: What is Aspect?: Contrasting Definitions in General Linguistics and
New Testament Studies
CHRISTOPHER J. THOMSON
1. Introduction
2. Aspect in General Linguistics
3. Definitions of Aspect in Recent New Testament Studies
4. Verbal Aspect and Procedural Character
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Tense and Aspect in Classical Greek: Two Historical Developments;
Augment and Perfect
RUTGER J. ALLAN
1. Introduction
2. The Augment: Immediacy or Distance?
3. The Historical Semantic Development of the Perfect
4. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Aspect-Prominence, Morpho-Syntax, and a Cognitive-Linguistic
Framework for the Greek Verb
NICHOLAS J. ELLIS
1. Introduction
2. Verbal Prominence: An Overview
3. The Grammatical Prominence of Tense, Aspect, and Mood
4. Verbal Prominence in English
5. Verbal Prominence in Greek
6. Why Grammatical Prominence Matters
7. Perfective Aspect
8. Imperfect Aspect
9. Combinative Aspect
10. The Greek Aspect/Tense System in Summary
11. Tense, Mood, and Voice: Implications for Nonprominent Categories
in the Greek Verbal System
12. Return to Matthew 2:20
13. Conclusions
Bibliography
Application
Chapter 5: Verb Forms and Grounding in Narrative
STEPHEN H. LEVINSOHN
1. Events Versus Nonevents
2. Tense-Aspect of Indicative Verbs
3. Subordination and Tail-Head Linkage
4. Specific Constructions
5. Summary and Concluding Comments
Bibliography
Chapter 6: Imperfects, Aorists, Historic Presents, and Perfects in John 11: A
Narrative Test Case
PATRICK JAMES
Bibliography
Chapter 7: The Contribution of Verb Forms, Connectives, and Dependency to
Grounding Status in Nonnarrative Discourse
STEVEN E. RUNGE
1. Introduction
2. Verb Forms and Grounding Status: Theme Line versus Support
3. Connectives and Grounding
4. Grammatical Dependency, Relative Salience, and Grounding
5. Summary
Bibliography
Chapter 8: Participles as a Pragmatic Choice: Where Semantics Meets
Pragmatics
RANDALL BUTH
1. Introduction
2. Definition of a Participle for This Paper
3. Basic Aspects of the Participles
4. Participles as Simple Replacements for Finite Verbs: Verb Prominence
and Participle Ranking
5. Participles Adding Content to Lexical, Phasal Aspect: Continuing and
Ending
6. Participles Streamline a Communication But Leave the Semantic
Relationship Unspecified
7. Prominence is Helpful in following a Main Point
8. Participles and the Historical Present
Bibliography
Chapter 9: Functions of Copula-Participle Combinations (“Periphrastics”)
STEPHEN H. LEVINSOHN
1. Introduction
2. Simple and Copular Imperfectives
3. Simple and Copular Perfects
4. Fronted Participles
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
Linguistic Investigations
Chapter 10: The Historical Present in NT Greek: An Exercise in Interpreting
Matthew
ELIZABETH ROBAR
1. Historical Present Cross-linguistically
2. Koine Greek
3. New Testament > Matthew
Bibliography
Chapter 11: The Function of the Augment in Hellenistic Greek
PETER J. GENTRY
1. Introduction
2. Origins and Usage (Described Diachronically)
3. The Personal Endings
4. A Holistic Picture: Diachronic and Synchronic
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 12: Typology, Polysemy, and Prototypes: Situating Nonpast Aorist
Indicatives
CHRISTOPHER J. FRESCH
1. The Aorist Indicative in Greek Scholarship
2. Verbal Systems and Linguistic Typology
3. Polysemy
4. Prototype Categories
5. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 13: Perfect Greek Morphology and Pedagogy
RANDALL BUTH
Bibliography
Chapter 14: The Semantics of the Perfect in the Greek of the New Testament
ROBERT CRELLIN
1. Introduction
2. Event and Situation Structure
3. Tense and Aspect
4. Tense and Aspect in Greek
5. Problem of the Perfect in Terms of Tense and Aspect
6. Proposal for the Semantics of the Greek Perfect
7. Semantic Relationship and Merger with the Aorist
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Chapter 15: Discourse Function of the Greek Perfect
STEVEN E. RUNGE
1. Introduction
2. Perfects Preceding That to Which They Are Relevant
3. Perfects That Follow That to Which They Are Relevant
4. Perfects on the Theme Line of the Discourse
5. Apparent exceptions
6. Areas for further research
7. Addendum
Bibliography
Chapter 16: Greek Prohibitions
MICHAEL AUBREY
1. Introduction
2. Aspect, Negation, and Predicate Types in Prohibitions
3. Layers of Scope and Negation
4. Conclusion: Prohibitions as Complex Constructions
Bibliography
Chapter 17: Tense and Aspect after the New Testament
AMALIA MOSER
1. Introduction
2. The Greek Verb: Modern vs. Classical
3. Aktionsart and Aspect
4. A Retrospective Look at Greek Aspect
5. Conclusions
Bibliography
Chapter 18: Motivated Categories, Middle Voice, and Passive Morphology
RACHEL AUBREY
1. Introduction
2. Synchronic Variety and Diachronic Development
3. Conceptual Prototypes and the Nature of Voice
4. Semantic Map
Bibliography
Chapter 19: Envoi
GEOFFREY HORROCKS
1. Introduction
2. Generalities
3. Specifics
4. Conclusion
Contributors
Subject/Author Index
Index of Ancient Sources
Abbreviations
2 Clem 2 Clement
acc. accusative
act. active
Acts Pil. Acts of Pilate
Adol. poet. aud. Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat
A.J. Josephus, Antiquitates judaicae (Jewish Antiquities)
a.k.a. also known as
ALH Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics
Ammon. Ammonius Grammaticus
Ant. Sophocles, Antigone
aor. aorist
App. Appian
Aristocr. Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates
Arm. Armenian
ASCP Amsterdam Studies in Classical Philology
AST Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series IV:
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory
aug. augment(ed)
AV. Atharvaveda
BCAW Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
BCLL Bibliothèque des Cahiers de Linguistique de Louvain
BDAG Bauer, Walter, F. W. Danker, W. F. Arndt, and F. W. Gingrich. A Greek-English
Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 3rd ed. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2000.
BDF Blass, F. and A. Debrunner. A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early
Christian Literature. Translated by Robert W. Funk. Revised ed. Chicago: University
Of Chicago Press, 1961.
BHAW Brief Histories of the Ancient World
BHL Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
BICS Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies
Bis acc. Lucians, Bis accusatus
B.J. Josephus, Bellum judaicum (Jewish War)