Includes bibliographical references.

Why we're honoring Stephen Levinsohn / Practice. Discourse analysis as an aid to biblical translation / Why hasn't literary stylistics caught on in New Testament studies? / Let me direct your attention : attention management and translation / Background. How orality affects the use of pragmatic particles, and how it is relevant for translation / Organization and allusion in Ezekiel 20 / Verbal system. Breaking perfect rules : the traditional understanding of the Greek perfect / Greek presents, imperfects, and aorists in the Synoptic Gospels : their contribution to narrative structuring / The verbal aspect of the historical present indicative in narrative / Particles and participles : a helpful partnership / Pragmatics. The semantic effect of floating quantifiers in New Testament Greek / The discourse function of [alla] in non-negative contexts / Information structure issues in copular [einai] clauses / Evaluating Luke's unnatural Greek : a look at his connectives / The use of the article before names of places : patterns of use in the book of Acts / Place names in Acts, showing the use of the article.