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Ausgabe:

September/2015

Spalte:

929–931

Kategorie:

Neues Testament

Autor/Hrsg.:

Caragounis, Chrys C.

Titel/Untertitel:

New Testament Language and Exegesis. A Diachronic Approach.

Verlag:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2014. XIII, 409 S. = Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 323. Lw. EUR 129,00. ISBN 978-3-16-152764-7.

Rezensent:

David E. Aune

In this monograph, C. C. Caragounis (Professor of New Testament Exegesis, emeritus, University of Lund) expands on the thesis presented earlier in The Development of Greek and the New Testament (2004), arguing that a diachronic approach to Greek is the only valid linguistic approach to New Testament Greek, since Greek is one language, from the beginning to the present (2.25). This ap­proach reveals how the New Testament »skews from normative Greek grammar [i. e., classical Attic]« (VII), which »set the standards by which all subsequent developments were measured« (99). He rejects the synchronic approach because it limits the linguistic evidence to the centuries framing the appearance of the New Testament writings (308). C. frequently echoes the views of the great Greek linguist G. N. ...


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