Granville Sharp's canon and its kin semantics and significance /

Main Author: Wallace, Daniel B.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, c2009.
Series:Studies in Biblical Greek, v. 14
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10517004
Table of Contents:
  • The problem of the construction
  • The need for this study
  • Methodological considerations
  • Limitations in the method and scope of research
  • Historical investigation
  • Preface : Jesus as [Geovv] in the New Testament
  • Granville Sharp and his Remarks on the uses of the definitive article
  • A short life of Granville Sharp
  • The writings of Granville Sharp
  • Sharp's Remarks on the uses of the definitive article
  • Two centuries of misunderstanding
  • From Wordsworth to Winstanley : early reactions to Sharp's first principle
  • From Middleton to Winer : the eclipse of understanding
  • The rising misunderstanding, abuse, and neglect of Sharp's canon
  • Sharp redivivus?
  • Linguistic-phenomenological analysis
  • The nature of the construction in general
  • The construction involving personal, singular, non-proper substantives
  • A proper semantic grid
  • The empirical data
  • The construction involving personal, plural, non-proper substantives
  • A proper semantic grid
  • The empirical data
  • The construction involving personal, singular, proper names
  • The construction involving impersonal substantives
  • A proper semantic grid
  • The empirical data
  • Mixed constructions
  • Exegetical implications and interactions
  • Impersonal substantive constructions
  • Concrete impersonal constructions
  • Abstract impersonal constructions
  • Personal, plural, non-proper constructions
  • Ambiguous passages
  • Exegetically significant passages
  • Personal, singular, non-proper substantive constructions
  • Sharp's application to Christologically significant texts
  • Passages overlooked by Sharp
  • Two Christologically significant texts
  • Mixed constructions
  • Conclusions
  • Exegetical conclusions
  • Methodological conclusions.