Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Modeling Biblical Language: An Introduction

Part 1 Modeling Language

Chapter 1 Systemic Functional Linguistics and the Greek Language: The Need for Further Modeling

Chapter 2 Aspect and Aktionsart Once Again

Chapter 3 Relative Temporal Ordering: Discourse Temporality in the Greek of the New Testament

Part 2 Modeling the Languages of the Hebrew Bible

Chapter 4 Evaluation Theory and the Ideology of Judges 6

Chapter 5 Sam(p)son’s Advent: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Judges 13 in Hebrew and Greek

Chapter 6 Yahweh as Shepherd-King in Ezekiel 34: A Linguistic-Literary Analysis of Metaphors of Shepherding

Part 3 Modeling the Language of the Greek New Testament

Chapter 7 Jesus before Pilate: A Discourse Analysis of John 18:33–38

Chapter 8 Towards a Model of Functional Monosemy: A Study of Creation Language in Romans

Chapter 9 An Intertextual Discourse Analysis of Romans 9:30–10:13

Chapter 10 Reconsidering the Meaning and Translation of Πνευματικός and Πνεῦμα in the Discourse Context of 1 Corinthians 12–14

Chapter 11 Metaphor Analysis with Some Help from Corpus Linguistics: Contextualizing “Root” Metaphors in Ephesians and Colossians

Chapter 12 Language as Negotiation: Toward a Systemic Functional Model for Ideological Criticism with Application to James 2:1–13

Chapter 13 Meaning in Bulk: The Greek Clause Complex and 1 Peter 1:3–12

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Ancient Sources