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Acknowledgements Abstract List of Tables Chapter I. INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY 1.1 The Research Problem Introduction The Statement of the Problem The Research Question Subsidiary Questions Delimitations and Limitations of the Study Terms 1.2 Scholarship Relevant To The Dissertation Introduction Linguistic Theory New Testament Scholarship 1.3 The Textual Basis for the Study 1.4 Methodology General Method Procedures II. THE RHETORICAL SITUATION AND CULTURAL BACKGROUND 2.1 The Rhetorical Situation Setting and Background The City of Corinth The Historical Background to I Corinthians 2.2 Literary Concerns The Authorship, Authenticity, and Dating of I Corinthians The Unity of I Corinthians 2.3 The Cultural Background The Place of a Schema in Understanding 2.4 Aspects of Culture at Corinth Wisdom and Leadership Fornication and Incest Marriage and Divorce Eating Meat Offered to Idols Head Coverings Lord's Supper Ecstasy in Religion Women in Religion The Resurrection Contributions 2.5 Christianity and Culture at Corinth III. MACROSEGMENTATION, MACROSTRUCTURE, AND THEME 3.1 Methodology 3.2 Macrosegmentation The Structure of the Letter Paul's Use of Chiasmus in Major Sections The Unity of the Fourth Discourse The Endings of Two Discourses 3.3 Macrostructure The Hortatory Distribution in the Letter The Argument Summaries and Key Ideas of the Discourses The Macrostructures of the Discourses The Macrostructure of the Fourth Discourse 3.4 Theme A Unifying Theme for I Corinthians Culture as a Unifying Theme The Centrality of Christ A Unified Macrostructure Themes as Meta-structures IV. CONSTITUENT ANALYSIS 4.0 Introduction 4.1 Particle The Linear Structure of a Text The Colon as Linguistic Sentence Structural Paragraphs Orthographic Paragraphs Advantages of Constituent Structure Analysis Constituent Paragraph Structure Verb Ranking and Salience Levels in Greek Hortatory Text 4.2 Wave Transitions between Paragraphs 4.3 Field Types of Grammatical and Conceptual Patterns Chiasmus on the Paragraph Level 4.4 The Value of Multiple Perspective 4.5 Conclusions V. OTHER FEATURES OF DISCOURSE 5.0 Intorduction 5.1 Peak 5.2 Participant Reference 5.3 Clause Word Order 5.4 Quotations Methods of Introducing Quotations in I Corinthians Old Testament Quotations and Synoptic Traditions 5.5 The Influence of the Rhetorical Situation VI. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS 6.1 Summary and Conclusions 6.2 Areas for Additional ResearchAppendix B. GREEK CONSTITUENT STRUCTURE DISPLAYS FOR I CORINTHIANS C. COLON STRUCTURE IN I CORINTHIANS |
CERTAIN FEATURES OF DISCOURSE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK OF I CORINTHIANS
The members of the Committee approve the doctoral
Robert E. Longacre
Joseph W. Bastien
Donald A. Burquest
Kenneth L. Pike
Robert J. Reddick
Nancy V. Wood
Dean of the Graduate School
AN ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN FEATURES OF DISCOURSE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT BOOK OF I CORINTHIANS by Ralph Bruce Terry
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Greek New Testament, Third Edition and Third (Corrected) Edition, © 1966, 1968, 1975, 1983 by the United Bible Societies. Used by permission. This dissertation is lovingly dedicated to the five most influential women in my life: my mother, Hazel Terry, who instilled me with a great love for the scriptures; my wife, Barbara Terry, who supported me throughout this academic journey in more ways than one; and my three daughters, Brina, Breta, and Becka, who put up with a father constantly in school.
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