Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics, vol. 1

Congratulations to Stan Porter, Matt O’Donnell, Greg Fewster, and Wally Cirafesi! The first print volume of Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics is available from Wipf and Stock.

It features four articles, including three by MDC Ph.D. students, and can be read here. Wally’s article on the pistis christou debate with respect to grammatical metaphor will need to be interacted with by future essays on the topic. Greg adapts the lexical priming model of Michael Hoey to test the intertextuality of mataiotes in the New Testament and with Ecclesiastes, pushing forward the discussions of intertextuality from a linguistic perspective. Hughson tackles Jesus’s sociolinguistic setting, helpfully encouraging us to see Jesus’s use of Greek as more prominent than is usually thought. Steve Runge has the last article in there, and sorry Steve, I haven’t read it yet!