Publications and Papers

Forthcoming

Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software. [Link]. [Sample PDF] [Reviews and Responses]

2009

“Joel 3:1-5 in Acts 2:17-21:  The Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Quotation and Variation from the LXX.” Pages 103-113 in Early Christian Literature and Intertextuality (Library of Second Temple Studies and Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity), eds. Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias. New York: T & T Clark. [PDF]

2008

Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament.  Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software [Link]. Includes:

• Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Glossary
• Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Introduction.

Lexham High Definition New Testament: ESV Edition. Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software [Link].

• Lexham High Definition New Testament: Glossary
• Lexham High Definition New Testament: Introduction

“Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark’s Account of the Parable of the Sower.” Journal of the Linguistics Institute of Ancient and Biblical Greek 1:1-15. [PDF]

Review of Ivan Shing Chung Kwong, The Word Order of the Gospel of Luke: Its Foregrounded Messages, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org]. [PDF]

2007

A Discourse-Functional Description of Participant Reference in Biblical Hebrew Narrative. D.Litt. diss., University of Stellenbosch. [PDF Excerpt]

2006

“Pragmatic Effects of Semantically Redundant Referring Expressions in Biblical Hebrew Narrative.” Journal of Northwest Semitic Languages 32(2):85-102. [PDF]

Conference Papers

2009

“The Effect of Redundancy on Perceptions of Emphasis and Discontinuity.” Paper presented in the “Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 21-24.

“The Aspect of the Historical Present Indicative in Narrative.” Paper presented in the “Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 21-24. [PDF]

2008

“The Discourse Function of Left-dislocation Constructions and their Contribution to Information Structure.” Paper presented in the “Biblical Greek Language and Linguistics” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 22-25. [Full paper] [PowerPoint Presentation]

“‘I want you to know…’ The Exegetical Significance of Meta-Comments for Identifying Key Propositions.” Paper presented in the “Discourse Grammar and Biblical Exegesis” Consultation of the ETS Annual Meeting, Providence, RI, Nov. 19-21, 2008. [Full paper] [PowerPoint Presentation]

2007

“Joel 3:1-5 in Acts 2:17-21:  The Discourse and Text-Critical Implications of Quotation and Variation from the LXX.”  Paper presented to the “Greek Bible” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.,  Nov. 17-20, 2007.

“‘So, Brothers’:  Pauline Use of the Vocative.”  Paper  presented with Sean Boisen to the “Biblical Greek and Linguistics” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA.,  Nov. 17-20, 2007.

“Teaching Them What NOT to Do:  The Nuances of Negation in the Greek New Testament.”  Paper Presented at the National Meeting of the ETS, San Diego, CA., Nov. 14-16, 2007. [PDF]

“The Exegetical Significance of Prospective Demonstrative Pronouns in Luke’s Gospel.”  Paper presented at the ETS Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting, Salem, OR., Feb. 24, 2007. [PDF]

2006

“What Difference Does It Make If NT Greek Has a Default Word Order or Not?”  Paper presented in the New Testament Section of the ETS Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., Nov. 15-17.

“Referring Expressions as Exegetical Signposts in Genesis 16.” Paper presented in the “Pentateuch (Torah)” Section of the SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-6.

“Where Two or Three are Gathered, There is Discontinuity: the correlation between formal linguistic markers of discontinuity and the Masoretic paragraph markers in Genesis 12-25.” Paper presented in the “Pericope: Scripture as Written and Read in Antiquity” Section of the SBL International Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 2-6.

2005

“Relative Saliency and Information Structure in Mark’s Account of the Parable of the Sower.” Paper presented at the “Biblical Greek and Linguistics” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

“The Pragmatic Effects of Semantically Redundant Discourse Anchors in BH Narrative.” Paper presented at the “Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew” Section of the SBL Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.