Marking Thought and Talk in New Testament Greek

Foreword by Larry W. Hurtado
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Introduction; Background to Study; Problem to be Addressed; Review of Scholarly Opinion; Classical Greek - Grammars; Koine Greek; TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS; PARTICULAR PROPOSALS FOR THE USE OF i; ANALYSIS PRESENTED BY GREEK GRAMMARIANS; Corpus; Theoretical Basis for Book; Arrangement of Chapters; Summary

Chapter 2 Theoretical Basis for Study; Introduction; Relevance Theory; General Background; Delineation of Theory; INFERENCES; HOW INFERENCES ARE SAID TO BE DRAWN; CONDITIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL COMMUNICATION; UNDERDETERMINACY; SHARED CONTEXTUAL ASSUMPTIONS; UNDERDETERMINACY IN PARTICIPLES; UNDERDETERMINACY IN PARTICLES; METAREPRESENTATION; PROCEDURAL MARKERS; OSTENSIVE BEHAVIOUR; Purpose or Intention in Koine; Summary

Chapter 3 Independent Clauses Introduced by 'hina' 4; Introduction; Use of 'hina' to Give an Answer to Question; Question and Answer by the Same Speaker; Examples from Polybius and Epictetus; New Testament Examples; Expressing Desire and Intention; Johannine Examples; Examples from Orators and Rhetoricians; DEMOSTHENES; DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS; Examples from Septuagint and Non-Literary Papyri; SEPTUAGINT; EXAMPLES FROM PAPYRI; Examples from the Epistles; Introducing a Quotation from the Old Testament; Indicating Speaker's Interpretation; Reporting the Thoughts or Speech of Others; Summary

Chapter 4 Requests, Commands, Prayers Introduced by 'hina' Introduction; Authorial Choice; Table 1; Synoptic Examples in Indirect Commands; Healing of Jairus' Daughter; MATTHEW 9:18; MARK 5:23; LUKE 8:41, 42; CONCLUSION; The Healing of a Boy with a Demon; MATTHEW 17:15, 16; MARK 9:17, 18; LUKE 9:38, 40; CONCLUSION; The Healing of the Demon Possessed Man; MATTHEW 8:34; MARK 5:17; LUKE 8:37; CONCLUSION; Authorial Choice in Same Context; Examples from Literary Koine; Examples from Dionysius of Halicarnassus; Examples from Polybius; Examples from Epictetus; Summary

Chapter 5 Noun Clauses Introduced by 'hina'; Introduction; Review of Metarepresentation; Explication of a Noun, Adjective or Demonstrative; Adjectives in Stative Clauses; NEW TESTAMENT EXAMPLES; EXAMPLES FROM THE DISCOURSES OF EPICTETUS; Nouns and Demonstratives in Stative Clauses; Nouns in Non-Stative Clauses Complemented by 'hina' Clauses; NEW TESTAMENT EXAMPLES; EXAMPLES FROM DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS; Noun Clauses with Impersonal Verbs; Noun Clauses which Function as Object of Main Verb; Examples from the New Testament; Examples from Epictetus; Prophetic Utterance Introduced by 'hina'; Summary

Chapter 6 Purpose Clauses Introduced by 'hina'; Introduction; Purpose as Indicating Intention, and Beyond; Contents; The Role of Context in Interpreting 'hina'; Purpose Attributed; AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGED ATTRIBUTION OF INTENT; REPRESENTATION OF INTENTION OF SUBJECT; PURPOSE FROM OBSERVABLE BEHAVIOUR; INTERPRETATION OF BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS; ATTRIBUTION OF INTENTION WITHOUT EVIDENCE; Other Ways of Expressing Purpose; Disputed purpose Clauses; Summary

Chapter 7 Investigating 'hoti'; Introduction; Classical Greek; Direct Speech; Indirect Speech; Causal Clauses; Koine Greek; Direct Speech; Indirect Speech; EXAMPLES FROM EPICTETUS AND POLYBIUS; EXAMPLES FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT; Causal Clauses; EXAMPLES FROM EPICTETUS AND POLYBIUS; EXAMPLES FROM NEW TESTAMENT; Summary

Chapter 8 Diachronic Use of 'hina'; Introduction; Classical Greek 500-300 BCE; Table 2; Hellenistic Greek 300-150 BCE; Graeco-Roman 150 BCE to 300 CE; Separation of Registers; HIGH LEVEL OF LANGUAGE: DIONYSIUS AND LUKE-ACTS; MORE COLLOQUIAL: EPICTETUS AND PAUL; Trends in Hellenistic Becoming More Marked; General Linguistic Changes; PHONETIC CHANGES; SYNTACTIC CHANGES; Language of the New Testament; Table 3;Explanations Advanced for Use of 'hina' in New Testament; Modern Greek; Summary

Chapter 9; Conclusion; Introduction; A Relevance Theoretic Approach to 'hina' A Lexical Meaning for 'hina'?; Taxonomic Approach to 'hina'; The Combination of 'hina' and a Subjunctive Verb; Diachronic Change in the Use and Frequency of 'hina'; Interpretation of 'hina' Clauses; Implications of Hypothesis; Implications for Interpretation; THE COMBINATION OF 'hina' AND plhrw=; 'IMPERATIVAL 'hina'; w(/ra WITH A FOLLOWING 'hina' CLAUSE; CAUSAL 'hina'; INTRODUCING 'RESULT' CLAUSES; Implications for Teaching New Testament Greek; Concluding Comments and Future Research.