Introduction: Diglossia and other topics in New Testament linguistics / Stanley E. Porter -- The current landscape of diglossia studies : the diglossic continuum in first-century Palestine / Jonathan M. Watt -- The question of diglossia in ancient Hebrew / Scobie P. Smith -- The functional distribution of Koine Greek in first-century Palestine / Stanley E. Porter -- Language repertoire and diglossia in first-century Palestine : some comments / Christina Bratt Paulston -- Translation technique in the Septuagint Leviticus / Dirk Bu?chner -- Of gutturals and Galileans : the two slurs of Matthew 26.73 / Jonathan M. Watt -- Language of change and the changing of language : a sociolinguistic approach to Pauline discourse / Jeffrey T. Reed -- Semantics and patterns of argumentation in the Book of Romans : definitions, proposals, data and experiments / Stanley E. Porter, Matthew Brook O'Donnell -- Ideology and point of view in Galatians 1-2 : a critical linguistic analysis / Edward Adams -- Designing and compiling a register-balanced corpus of Hellenistic Greek for the purpose of linguistic discription and investigation / Matthew Brook O'Donnell.