Stanley E. Porter is an American academic specializing in New Testament studies

New Testament Studies

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 and the grammar of Koine Greek

Koine Greek

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He studied at Point Loma College, San Diego, (B.A.), Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California

Claremont, California

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 (M.A.) Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

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, Deerfield, Illinois

Deerfield, Illinois

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 (M.A.) and earned his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield

University of Sheffield

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 1988. From 1994 he was Professor of Theology and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Roehampton University

Roehampton University

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, London. He is currently is president, dean and professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College

McMaster Divinity College

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 in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

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He is particularly noted for his works on verbal aspect in New Testament Greek and as a proponent for Greek verbal aspect being regarded as a major semantic category in the analysis and exegesis of Greek texts. However he also is known for an approach that recognises the common Hellenistic heritage of many so-called semitic verb aspect uses in the New Testament, except where reference to the Septuagint is clear.

Works

• The Paul of Acts: Essays in Literary Criticism, Rhetoric, and Theology
• Idioms of the Greek New Testament
• Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the New Testament, with Reference to Tense and Mood.