By Stanley E. Porter
In "The Language of the hot Testament," Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts gather a world staff of students whose paintings has inquisitive about the Greek language of the earliest Christians when it comes to its context, heritage and improvement.
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27 Alternations on the grammatical, lexical and semantic levels may be motivated either by functional or stylistic criteria. In a classic study, Blom and Gumperz (1972) suggested that situational code-switching reflected diverging social requirements, while metaphoric code-switching was intended for poetic, or even humorous, effect. It should be noted as well that bilinguals report code-switching simply because that was the word that first came to mind, or because a lexical gap in one language was naturally filled by their knowledge of words from the other.
For example, Homer speaks of Aion for the human spheres of life (Il. 27; Od. 203) and death (Il. 453; Od. 523), and for units of measurable time (Il. 33 Furthermore, Pindar, Ol. g. Ol. 10; Isthm. 34 Similar evidence can be found in other writers of the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman periods as well. Menander (Frag. ”35 In New Testament usage, neglected by Levi, for example, in 1Tim 1:17, God is depicted as βασιλεὺς τῶν αἰώνων, in which divine transcendance is placed within the human conventions of time, here not absolute time as Levi thinks, but bounded time (cf.
First, we must acknowledge the primacy of the oral-aural dynamic of language usage even though we cannot access those living interactions directly today. The field of linguistics routinely begins where the field of New Testament studies has, at best, relatively sparse and utterly indirect evidence. Spoken language has always thrived without any necessity for its written expression. The forces that drive its development and evolution are largely disconnected from the kind of data that are the stuff of textbased discussion.