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Greek, Ancient

An extinct language of Greece

ISO 639-3: grc

Population	Extinct.
Dialects	Koine Greek, Classical Greek.
Classification	Indo-European, Greek, Attic
Language use	Used as a religious language by the Greek Orthodox Church. The language of the text of the Christian New Testament.
Language development	NT: c. 42–98 A.D.
Writing system	Cypriot script. Greek script. Linear B script.

Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:

Academic Publications

ABERNATHY, David, author. 2001. "Paul’s thorn in the flesh: a messenger of Satan?."

ABERNATHY, David, author. 2001. Exegetical considerations in 1 Peter 2:7-9.

ABERNATHY, David, author. 2001. Paul’s ministry of reconciliation: exegeting and translating 2 Corinthians 5:11-6:2.

ABERNATHY, David, author. 2002. "Christ as life-giving Spirit in 1 Corinthians 15:45."

AUSTING, John F., author. 1977. Introduction and overview of II Corinthians.

BAILEY, Nicholas A., other. 2009. Thetic constructioins in Koine Greek with special attention to clauses with εἰμί ‘be’, γίνομαι ‘occur’, ἒρχομαι ‘come’, ἰδoʋ́/ἲδε ‘behold’, and complement clauses of ὁράω ‘see’.

BENDOR-SAMUEL, Pamela M., author. 1996. The exegesis and translation of prepositional phrases in the Greek New Testament: a semantic role analysis.  

BUTH, Randall J., author. 1992. "Oυν, Δε, Kαι and asyndeton in John’s Gospel."

CALLOW, Kathleen, author. 1992. "The disappearing Δε in 1 Corinthians."

COURTZ, Henk, author. 2010. "Uitzien naar de toekomst: het futurum in het Griekse werkwoordsysteem."

DEGRAAF, David, author. 2005. "Some doubts about doubt: the New Testament use of Διακρινω."

FINLEY, Thomas J.; SILZER, Peter J., authors. 2004. How Biblical languages work: a student’s guide to learning Hebrew and Greek.

GEBAUER, Ronald, author. 2007. Translator’s Notes on Jude: Helps on Understanding and Translating Jude's Letter.  

GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 2005. "“More than these?” John 21:15."  

GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 2005. "New Testament circumstantial participles."  

GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 2008. "Short note."  

GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 2009. "Short note: Κλητóς 'called'—a mistreated adjective."  

GREENLEE, J. Harold, author. 2012. "Short Note: Mary, Espoused to Joseph."  

GRIMES, Joseph E., author. 1975. "Signals of discourse structure in Koine."

HALE, Clarence B., author. 1991. The Meaning of "In Christ" in the Greek New Testament.  

HEATH, David M., author. 1993. A hypothesis concerning the inferential use of ‘αpa’, ‘διο’, and ‘oυv’ in Romans.

HILL, Ralph, author. 1978. A semantic analysis of the adnominal genitive construction in James.

HOLLENBACH, Bruce E., author. 1985. "Two constraints on subordination in New Testament Greek."

HOOPERT, Daniel A., author. 2007. "Verb ranking in Koine imperativals."  

HOYLE, Richard, author. 2008. Scenarios, discourse, and translation: the scenario theory of Cognitive Linguistics, its relevance for analysing New Testament Greek and modern Parkari texts, and its implications for translation theory.  

KOLGJINI, Julie May, author. 2001. Review of: Comparative syntax of Balkan languages, Maria-Luisa Rivero and Angela Ralli, editors.

LARSEN, Iver A., author. 1994. The use of ‘γαρ’ and the meaning of fire in Mark 9:49.

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 1977. The groupings and classification of events in Mark 14.

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2001. Ερκομαι and Πορευομαι in Luke-Acts: two orientation strategies.

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2001. Review of: The structure of Hebrews: a text-linguistic analysis, by George H. Guthrie.

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2006. "Reasoning styles and types of hortatory discourse."  

LEVINSOHN, Stephen H., author. 2006. "The relevance of Greek discourse studies to exegesis."  

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1992. "Towards an exegesis of 1 John based on the discourse analysis of the Greek text."

LONGACRE, Robert E., author. 1999. "Mark 5.1-43: Generating the complexity of a narrative from its most basic elements."

MARLETT, Stephen A., author. 1975. Evidence for raising in Koine Greek.

SIM, Margaret G., author. 2006. A relevance theoretic approach to the particle ἵνα in Koine Greek.  

SIM, Margaret G., author. 2010. Marking thought and talk in New Testament Greek: new light from linguistics on the particles ἵνα and ὅτι.  

WALKWITZ, Edward R., author. 1995. Illative conjunctions in Romans.

ZOBULE, A., author. 2010. "A critical analysis of the Old Greek (G) of Amos 3:12 in light of ancient translation practices."