Logos Bible Software Datasets
The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament (LDGNT) was followed quickly by Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament that offered a more thorough description of the features than what is found in the introduction and glossary that accompany the LDGNT. If you have studied some Greek or are comfortable using digital tools for Bible study, these resources are a great complement to traditional exegetical tools. There is also a Hebrew Bible/Old Testament database that completes this suite of resources.
Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament (Lexham Bible Reference Series)
Steven E. Runge
Lexham Discourse Hebrew Bible (Lexham Bible Reference Series)
Steven E. Runge and Joshua R. Westbury
Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis
Steven E. Runge
There is also a bundle that includes all these resources for less than the Old Testament alone HERE. The databases offer a visual commentary on the features of the text, and the grammar provides theoretical grounding in linguistics and compares the descriptions to traditional grammatical approaches.
High Definition Commentaries
The High Definition Commentaries (HDC) are an experimental challenge from the co-founder and CEO of Faithlife Corporation to used my advanced knowledge of discourse analysis to write a practical and approachable commentary that his mother could use preparing for her Bible studies. There are no footnotes, no Greek words, just a narrated tour of each book, describing how the biblical writers’ choices guide how we read and the conclusions we reach.
This latest volume in the HDC series replaces infographics featured in the previous volumes with extra attention to the metaphorical and pragmatic devices employed to accomplish Paul’s rhetorical purposes.
Video Courses
For those who would benefit from a course-based introduction to the resources above, I have produced two Faithlife courses designed to provide additional introduction and application of my Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament. The examples discussed are taken from the datasets to help you learn how all these resources are intended to function as a unified suite to complement traditional exegetical tools.
The exegetical study of Philippians applies the principles from the grammar to the Greek text of the datasets for you to not only better understand the principles at work, but also to see how I arrived at the exegetical conclusions reached in the High Definition Commentary: Philippians.
Edited Works
I am a strong believer in collaboration, and so have organized several major scholarly projects over the years. The first was a collection of essays from leading NT scholars and linguists to survey linguistic features and approaches to textual analysis. This collection of essays was presented to one of my mentors to honor his contribution to Bible translation and Greek linguistics.
The Greek Verb Revisited: A Fresh Approach for Biblical Exegesis
Steven E. Runge and Christopher J. Fresch, editors
The next publication collected the essays from a conference on the Greek verb hosted at Tyndale House, Cambridge. For the past quarter-century there have been competing, contradictory claims made about the nature of the Greek verb, particularly about the relationship of aspect and tense. The contributors are leading linguists, Classicists, and NT scholars who collaboratively offered a case for understanding Greek as an aspect-prominent language that features tense in the indicative mood. The volume also offers more soundly linguistic solutions to the problems that previous scholars claimed as evidence that Greek is a tenseless language.