This work studies the word order of the Gospel of Luke and some of its prominent messages with consideration of systemic functional linguistic theories. The first part of the work focuses on the relative positions of four constituents (subject, predicate, complement and circumstantial adjunct) of different types of Lukan clauses (independent, dependent, infinitival, participial and embedded clause). The result gives some unmarked (typical or common) word order patterns and some marked word order patterns of all Lukan clauses. The second part traces the foregrounded messages of the Gospel based on their related marked word order patterns incorporated with functional linguistic phenomena. The result highlights the messages of Jesus' disciples and his parents' failure in understanding him, Pilate's crime of handing over Jesus and Jesus' predictions of his future sufferings and Peter's future failure. JSNTS and Studies in New Testament Greek series

Ivan Shing Chung Kwong is Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies at the Alliance Bible Seminary,

Part I
Introduction

Introduction

Chapter 1
Recent Studies of the Topic of Word Order

Chapter 2
Studying Word Order of Luke: A Methodological Consideration

Part II
Unmarked Word Orders of the Gospel of Luke

Chapter 3
Relative Positions of Main Constituents in Lukan Clauses

Chapter 4
The Positions of Circumstantial Adjuncts in Lukan Clauses

Part III
Marked Word Orders of the Gospel of Luke and Foregrounded Messages

Chapter 5
Indirect Speeches in Luke and the Disciples' Understanding of Jesus

Chapter 6
Handing Over Jesus: A Consideration of Pilate's Action Through the Clause Structures in Luke 23.1-25
Appendix 6A: Incidents of REJ(C)P and RSC(J)P in Acts
Appendix 6B: The CP Order in Luke 23.16, 22 and 22.54

Chapter 7
Temporal Clause Complexes and Foregrounded Messages in Luke Two

Chapter 8
Given-New Information Units in Luke 22.24-38 and Its Prominent Messages

Conclusion

Appendix
Distributions of the Word Orders in Lukan Clauses

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