dr. stanley porter
Dr Stanley E. Porter,President and Dean, Professor of New Testament, Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview, McMaster Divinity College, Canada. His voluminous publications include:
He is particularly noted for his works on verbal aspect in New Testament Greek. He is a proponent for Greek verbal aspect being regarded as a major semantic category in the analysis and exegesis of Greek texts, recognising three aspects: perfective, imperfective and stative. However he also is known for an approach that recognises the common Hellenistic heritage of many so-called semitic verb aspect uses in the New Testament, except where reference to the Septuagint is clear (Wikipedia)
- The Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology
- Idioms of the Greek New Testament
- Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood.
- Stanley E. Porter Criteria For Authenticity In Historical-jesus Research ISBN 978-0-567-04360-3 p164
- Stanley E. Porter, Jesus and the Use of Greek: A Response to Maurice Casey. Bulletin for Biblical Research. 10:1 (2000): 71-87.
He is particularly noted for his works on verbal aspect in New Testament Greek. He is a proponent for Greek verbal aspect being regarded as a major semantic category in the analysis and exegesis of Greek texts, recognising three aspects: perfective, imperfective and stative. However he also is known for an approach that recognises the common Hellenistic heritage of many so-called semitic verb aspect uses in the New Testament, except where reference to the Septuagint is clear (Wikipedia)
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