Stanley E. Porter is President, Dean and Professor of New Testament, McMaster Divinity College, Canada.

Stanley E. Porter provides descriptions of various important topics in Greek linguistics from a Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) perspective; an approach that has been foundational to Porter's long and influential career in the field of New Testament Greek.
Deep insights into Porter's understanding of SFL are displayed throughout, based either upon how he positions SFL in relation to other linguistic models, or how he utilizes it to describe topics within Greek and New Testament studies. Porter reflects on his core approach to the Greek New Testament by exploring subjects such as metaphor, rhetoric, cognition, orality and textuality, as well as studies on linguistic schools of thought and traditional grammar.

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction to This Volume on Linguistic Descriptions
Part One: Linguistics and New Testament Study
1. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study I: Linguistic Schools and Traditional Grammar
2. Linguistic Theory and New Testament Greek Study II: Modern Linguistics and Its Schools of Thought
Part Two: Systemic Functional Linguistics and New Testament Study
3. Metaphor in the New Testament: Expressing the Inexpressible through Language within a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective
4. Rhetoric and Persuasion in the New Testament from a Systemic Functional Linguistics Perspective
5. Defining Cognition through Systemic Functional Linguistics System Networks and the Greek of the New Testament
6. Orality and Textuality and Implications for Description of the Greek New Testament from a Systemic Function Linguistic Perspective
Conclusion
Bibliography
Modern Author Index
Ancient Sources Index