A sequel as well as an advance on the author's study The Development of Greek and the New
Testament (WUNT 167) Chrys C. Caragounis applies the diachronic or holistic approach to the
exegesis of the New Testament in this volume. He takes up for discussion a number of
grammatico-syntactical areas of the New Testament and shows that previous exegesis misguided
by a myopic view of and approach to the Greek language has not infrequently played havoc with
the meaning and interpretation of its text. He studies the language of the New Testament in the
light of historical developments that changed Greek from classical to 'Hellenistic' then to
Byzantine and finally to Neohellenic. These explain the oddities or peculiarities of the New
Testament Greek showing them to be a part of a much larger process at modernizing the
language. By drawing upon the whole linguistic evidence available the reader is led to a more
genuine more correct understanding of the New Testament text.
