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Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels: On the Method and Meaning of Divergent Tense-Form Usage in the Synoptic Passion Narratives: 7 Illustrated Edition
Author(s): Wally V. Cirafesi (Author)
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 11 April 2013
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 204 pages
- ISBN-10: 9789004246454
- ISBN-13: 9004246452
Book Description
In Verbal Aspect in Synoptic Parallels Wally Cirafesi answers the question of why the Synoptic Gospels at times employ different tense-forms to communicate the same action. The problem has typically been explained from the perspective of redaction criticism and temporal Aktionsart approaches to the Greek verb. Cirafesi challenges these approaches by reframing the discussion in terms of recent advances in verbal aspect theory and discourse analysis. He convincingly demonstrates that such differences in tense-form usage have to do with how each Gospel writer wishes to construct their discourses according to various levels of linguistic prominence.
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“Die Untersuchung ist klar aufgebaut und gut zu lesen.” – Marius Reiser, Heidesheim, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 140 (2015)
About the Author
Wally V. Cirafesi is a graduate of McMaster Divinity College, where he is also an Adjunct Instructor. He is Associate Editor of the journal Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics, and has published articles in journals such as New Testament Studies, Journal of Greco-Roman Christianity and Judaism, Journal for the Study of Paul and his Letters, and Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics.
