Contents -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts. The Language of the New Testament and Its History: An Introductory Essay -- CONTEXT -- Jonathan M. Watt. Some Implications of Bilingualism for New Testament Exegesis -- Stanley E. Porter. What Can We Learn about Greek Grammar from a Mosaic? -- Rodney J. Decker. Markan Idiolect in the Study of the Greek of the New Testament -- Frederick William Danker. A Linguistic-Cultural Approach to Alleged Pauline and Lukan Christological Disparity -- Sean A. Adams. Atticism, Classicism, and Luke-Acts: Discussions with Albert Wifstrand and Loveday Alexander -- Fredrick J. Long. Roman Imperial Rule under the Authority of Jupiter-Zeus: Political-Religious Contexts and the Interpretation of 'the Ruler of the Authority of the Air' in Ephesians 2:2 -- Jan H. Nylund. The Prague School of Linguistics and Its Influence on New Testament Language Studies -- HISTORY -- Jonathan M. Watt. A Brief History of Ancient Greek with a View to the New Testament -- Christopher Land. Varieties of the Greek Language -- Andrew W. Pitts. Greek Case in the Hellenistic and Byzantine Grammarians -- John A.L. Lee. The Atticist Grammarians -- DEVELOPMENT -- Andrew W. Pitts. Greek Word Order and Clause Structure: A Comparative Study of Some New Testament Corpora -- Rodney J. Decker. The Function of the Imperfect Tense in Mark's Gospel -- Paul Danove. A Comparison of the Usages of didwmi and didwmi Compounds in the Septuagint and New Testament -- Francis Gignac. Grammatical Developments of Greek in Roman Egypt Significant for the New Testament -- Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts. The Disclosure Formula in the Epistolary Papyri and in the New Testament: Development, Form, Function, and Syntax.

Beth M. Stovell. Seeing the Kingdom of God, Seeing Eternal Life: Cohesion and Prominence in John 3:1-15 and the Apocryphal Gospels in Terms of Metaphor Use -- Index of Modern Authors -- Index of Ancient Sources.