Verbal Aspect, the Indicative Mood, and Narrative: Soundings in the Greek of the New Testament (Studies in Biblical Greek)
Constantine R. Campbell
Language: English
Pages: 285
ISBN: 1433100037
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Verbal aspect in Ancient Greek has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. In this book, Constantine R. Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within New Testament Greek narrative. He argues that the primary role of verbal aspect in narrative is to delineate and shape the various ‘discourse strands’ of which it is constructed, such as mainline, offline, and direct discourse. Campbell accounts for this function in terms of the semantic value of each tense-form. Consequently, in the search for more effective conclusions and explanations, he challenges and reassesses some of the conclusions reached in previous scholarship. One such reassessment involves a boldly innovative approach to the perfect tense-form.
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system................................241 5. Narrative structure and the indicative mood ....................................244 6. Exegetical implications......................................................................247 7. Conclusion ........................................................................................247 Bibliography ................................................................................................249 Author Index
than every historical present introducing discourse ‘reveals the same function, of highlighting Jesus’ authority, as was found with the pericope-initial historical presents of nonspeech verbs’.67 It is clear, however, that this is untenable, as an example from John 1:48 demonstrates: le,gei auvtw/| Naqanah,l\ po,qen me ginw,skeijÈ avpekri,qh VIhsou/j kai. ei=pen auvtw/|\ pro. tou/ se Fi,lippon fwnh/sai o;nta u`po. th.n sukh/n ei=do,n seÅ Nathanael said to him, ‘How do you know me?’ Jesus
the fort which was there they seized it and killed some of the guards; but most, fleeing immediately to the camps which were three upon the Epipolae, one belonging to the Syracusans, one to the other Siceliots, and one to the allies, they reported the foray and ––––––– 70 See Rose, ‘Durative and Aoristic Tenses’, 27. CHAPTER TWO: THE PRESENT TENSE-FORM 73 pointed it out to the six hundred Syracusans who were first guards along this portion of the Epipolae. Generally speaking, however, it
non-past referring imperfects, and two of his examples are given here along with some of his comment on each example. Galatians 4:20 h;qelon de. parei/nai pro.j u`ma/j a;rti kai. avlla,xai th.n fwnh,n mou( o[ti avporou/mai evn u`mi/nÅ I wish I could be with you now and change my tone, for I am perplexed about you. ‘This analysis [of the imperfect being present referring] can be supported by the deictic indicator a;rti (now), as well as the thrust of the context. Paul is not describing a previous
cases. While the examples he cites in defence of his approach may be used in its support, several other examples seriously call it into question. Some uses of the perfect spawn awkward interpretations (at best) through McKay’s model, while other renderings border on impossible. 3.2 Porter Porter builds on McKay’s model of the perfect aspect (though labelling it stative aspect), with some significant modifications, following the lead of J. P. Louw.24 According to Louw, stative aspect refers not to