{"product_id":"verbal-aspect-theory-and-the-prohibitions-in-the-greek-new-testament-9781433107634","title":"Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e Part 1 The Great Prohibition Debate seeks to demonstrate that verbal aspect theory has a better explanation than traditional \u003ci\u003eAktionsart\u003c\/i\u003e theory for authorial choices between the negated present imperative and the negated aorist subjunctive in expressing prohibitions in the Greek New Testament. \u003cbr\u003e Part 2 All the Prohibitions in the Greek NT continues to examine prohibitions, but is more of an exercise in functional linguistics. That is, rather than apply verbal aspec\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: The \u003ci\u003eAktionsart \u003c\/i\u003eView of Greek Prohibitions: «\u003ci\u003eStop doing that.» \u003c\/i\u003evs. «\u003ci\u003eDo not start that.»\u003c\/i\u003e – The Failures of the \u003ci\u003eAktionsart\u003c\/i\u003e View: Verb Tense-Forms ≠ Kind of Action – Verbal Aspect Theory \u0026amp; Greek Prohibitions: «\u003ci\u003eDo not be doing that.» \u003c\/i\u003evs. \u003ci\u003e«Do not do that.»\u003c\/i\u003e – The Successes of a Verbal Aspect View: Verb Tense-Forms ≈ Author’s Perspective – The Negated Present Tense Prohibitions – The Negated Aorist Tense Prohibitions – Prohibitions Using Other Negated Verb Constructions – Prohibitions Using Negated Dependent Clause Constructions – Lexical Prohibitions: \u003ci\u003e«Refrain from that.»\u003c\/i\u003e – Prohibitory Emulation Statements: «\u003ci\u003eWe do not do that.» \u003c\/i\u003e– Prohibitory Questions: «\u003ci\u003eWhy are you doing that?»\u003c\/i\u003e – Warnings \u0026amp; Promises as Prohibitions: «\u003ci\u003eThose who do that will be punished.»\u003c\/i\u003e – Other Negative Expressions as Prohibitions: «\u003ci\u003eNo, don’t!»\u003c\/i\u003e – Conclusion: Summary \u0026amp; Prospects.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039518196055,"sku":"9781433107634","price":45.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433107634.jpg?v=1750943943","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/verbal-aspect-theory-and-the-prohibitions-in-the-greek-new-testament-9781433107634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}