Discussions on overhauling and refining a scholarly understanding of the verbal system for first-century Greek have included advances in verbal aspect theory and other linguistic approaches to describing the grammatical phenomena of ancient languages. This volume seeks to apply some of that learning to the narrow realm of how prohibitions were constructed in the first-century Greek of the New Testament.

Many New Testament Greek grammarians assert that the Greek attributive participle and the Greek relative clause are “equivalent.” In this book, Michael E. Hayes disproves those assertions through an analysis of every attributive participle and relative clause in the Greek New Testament.