James E. Sedlacek, BA (God's Bible School & College), MDiv (Cincinnati Christian University), PhD (Nazarene Theological College)
'The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline Corpus: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis' (NTC), 2020. Published as The Verbal Aspect Integral to the Perfect and Pluperfect Tense-Forms in the Pauline Corpus: A Semantic and Pragmatic Analysis (Peter Lang, 2022).
James completed his doctoral thesis in 2020, under the supervision of Dr Svetlana Khobnya. This research examined the verbal aspect of the Greek Perfect and Pluperfect tense-forms within the epistolary genre. The Perfect and Pluperfect tense-forms within the corpus of thirteen canonical Pauline letters were examined in light of recent verbal aspect theories both to test those theories and provide a way forward through the debate. Particular attention was given to the way in which the tense-forms were modified, whether adverbially or with certain prepositional phrases. The Pauline corpus was then compared to a diachronic epistolary corpus spanning eight centuries to situate the usage of Perfect tenses in the Pauline corpus against that of other writers. Two smaller pieces were published as “Reimagining Οἶδα: Indo-European Etymology, Morphology and Semantics Point to its Aspect,” Conversations with the Biblical World (vol. 36, 2016) 146-163; and “A Diachronic Analysis of The Form of the Greek Perfect and its Associated Uses: Arguing for a Complex Verbal Aspect,” published in Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (7-9/9/2017, London): Selected Papers (London: University of Westminster, 2019) 235-247. The project as a whole is now published by Peter Lang in the Studies in Biblical Greek series, volume 22, September, 2022.
James is currently Professor of Biblical Languages at Israel Institute of Biblical Studies, teaching several levels of Greek and Hebrew, and developing exegesis courses. Additionally, James is examining special syntax of infinitives, certain patterns of repeating conditional clauses, and the lexical meaning of hapax legomena. His interests include examining texts of various languages using linguistic methods along with critiquing interpretations of those texts.