Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Te... - 9781433123580

Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New TestamentAuthor(s): D.A. Carson, Douglas S. Huffman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781433123580, 978-1433123580\nSynopsis\nThe end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries have involved much discussion on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek. These discussions have included advances in verbal aspect theory and other linguistic approaches to describing the grammatical phenomena of ancient languages. This volume seeks to apply some of that learning to the narrow realm of how prohibitions were constructed in the first-century Greek of the New Testament. \n Part 1 The Great Prohibition Debate seeks to demonstrate that verbal aspect theory has a better explanation than traditional Aktionsart theory for authorial choices between the negated present imperative and t.