[B-Greek] NT Greek verbal aspect (Joseph Justiss)
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davidabooth at comcast.net
Tue Feb 22 12:42:10 EST 2011
Joseph,
A good place to start is with Campbell's little book: Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek .
Next, I would recommend the first chapter of Stanley Porter's Idioms of the Greek New Testament for the newer view along with Dan Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics for a more traditional view. Everyone working with the NT should have a copy of Wallace's syntax anyway.
If you have a seminary or university library available, you can consult Buist Fanning's doctoral work on verbal aspect which was published as Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek . There are also some up to date scholarly articles on the subject in The Linguist as Pedagogue edited by Stanley Porter and Matthew O'Donnell. Both books are on the expensive side (although you can purchase Sheffield Phoenix books for half price if you buy them directly from the publisher).
If you still want to read more (although it is hard to imagine why you would!), you can follow up by simply reading the footnotes.
David A Booth
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From: "Joseph Justiss" <jljustiss at gmail.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] NT Greek verbal aspect (Joseph Justiss)
Who are the major players today who write on the use of tenses and verbal
aspect in NT Greek? Who are the ones challenging and enhancing the
traditional views in a way that is up to par with scholarly standards and
deserves serious attention? Porter? Campbell? I'm looking for suggestions on
what I should be reading to really enter the discussion and decide for
myself. Are there any writers who offer explanation on the way the tenses
interact in texts to build stories and discourses. Things like tense
shifting, foregrounding, backgrounding, etc. etc. in narrative and
non-narrative.
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Joseph Justiss
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