New book on the perfect tense - Soon Ki Hong

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New book on the perfect tense - Soon Ki Hong

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I am spending some time going back over books and articles on Verbal aspect at the moment and the following came up in a search.


I have pre-ordered, figured others may be interested
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Re: New book on the perfect tense - Soon Ki Hong

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Matthew Longhorn wrote: December 15th, 2019, 6:22 am I am spending some time going back over books and articles on Verbal aspect at the moment and the following came up in a search.
Here's the publisher's blurb:
The Greek Perfect Tense in the Gospel of Mark and the Epistle to the Romans
Soon Ki Hong
The Greek Perfect Tense in the Gospel of Mark and the Epistle to the Romans is designed to resolve the confusion that has resulted from Stanley Porter’s understanding of the use of Greek perfect tense. For Porter, the perfect tense functions as a third level of "frontground" which denotes the highest prominence on a discourse. Porter has argued that the perfect tense is chosen to deliver a present state, disregarding anterior activity. This book supports the validity of a traditional understanding of the Greek perfect tense, which is rooted in a dual feature. The author argues that the perfect tense is chosen to indicate a present state that results from anterior activity and functions as background for main events or themes. The author formulates three rules to discuss the function of the Greek perfect tense in Mark and Romans. Through the discussion of the perfect tense using these rules, the author finds it appropriate to interpret all the Greek perfects in Mark and Romans in light of the perfect’s inherent dual feature. This book should prove useful for seminary students, pastors, or scholars who are struggling with how to interpret the Greek perfect tense in the New Testament.
I believe this was a DTS Ph.D. dissertation.
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Re: New book on the perfect tense - Soon Ki Hong

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Thanks Stephen - I should have thought to post that rather than make people go hunting
Here is the review blurb as well
In this technical yet practically-minded study of the Greek perfect, Soon Ki Hong seeks to clear up the confusion over verbal aspect in Biblical Greek for those training in exegesis for ministry. In her search for clarity, she ably evaluates the conception of the Greek perfect by one of the leading verbal aspect grammarians and concludes that on balance the Greek perfect is best understood in the more traditional sense. I hope Dr. Hong's careful study will inspire many majority-world scholars of Biblical Greek to contribute to the discussion."--Steven S. H. Chang, Professor of New Testament, Torch Trinity Graduate University, Seoul, South Korea

"Soon Ki Hong's book on the discourse function of the NT Greek perfect tense fills an important gap. Stanley Porter's suggestion (1989) that the perfect provides a 'frontground' of prominence in relation to the aorist's background and the present's foreground was a distinct departure from the assessment of others working on aspect and discourse, and it has been critiqued but at a mostly theoretical level. What was needed was an analysis of a larger body of NT usage to assess its validity. Hong's book has now supplied that analysis in a careful and competent study of the full text of Mark and of Romans. She calls Porter's hypothesis into question and suggests guidelines for the perfect's discourse function that promise greater usefulness for the study of other NT texts."--Buist M. Fanning, Senior Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas [/qoute]
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I am not too sure what is going on with this book - it seems to have been removed from Peter Lang publishers website and Amazon don't know if / when it may be in stock.
Anyone know what is going on with it?
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Re: New book on the perfect tense - Soon Ki Hong

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I contacted the publishers and they say it was a mistake that led to it being removed from their site - it will be back on there in the next 48 hours. Apparently Amazon US has it in stock, but UK is not likely to have it up any time soon.
On the plus side, it will be available on kindle / epub in the next couple of weeks. Not my favourite way of reading, but hey

That is a thoroughly unexciting reason compared to the academic intrigue that I was imagining as possible reasons for sudden removal from the publishers site.
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