Constantine R. Campbell, Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek (
Thank Jesse Hillman for the review copy.
Constantine Campbell has written a short, interesting, and informative book on verbal aspect in biblical Greek. The strength of this work is its clarity (terms are defined, examples provided, etc.). The reader is also aided by the exercises (with answers), a glossary, and an index. To be quite honest, I am not sure that I am qualified to evaluate the strengths of some of some of the more technical linguistic arguments, but it appears that
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: Verbal Aspect and Exegesis
Verbal Aspect Theory
1. What is Verbal Aspect?
2. The History of Verbal Aspect
3. Perfective Aspect
4. Imperfective Aspect
5. The Problem of the Perfect
Verbal Aspect and New Testament Text
6. Verbal Lexeme Basics
7. Present and Imperfect Tense-forms
8. Aorist and Future Tense-Forms
9. Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms
10. More Participles
A Concluding Postscript: Space and Time
Verbal Glossary
Answers to Exercises
Indexes
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