Recensiones y presentación de libros 157 on more recent literary interpretation (where the volume is most helpful and where we could do with an up to date solid reference tool for scholars and stu- dents alike!, entries such as “Feminist Criticism”, 130-34; “New Hermeneutic”, 245-49; “Postcolonialism/Postcolonial criticism”, 270-73; “Reader-response Criticism”, 303-11; “Socio-rhetorical Criticism”, 342-46), a dictionary on the history of Biblical interpretation, and short entries reminiscent of a normal Bible dictionary. The question whether all the fifty methods covered here (can one really cover them on less than four hundred pages?) are equally valid and/or useful is not raised. Which method is to be used for what texts and for what interpretive purposes? Should such a dictionary not have an introductory article explaining the raise and development of newer literary critical methods, including their strength, weaknesses and presuppositions? In my estimate, a second edition should omit material that does not fit the scope of the preface (and for which one would not look in such a handbook!), and enlarge some of the short or shorter articles on aspects of literary criti- cism. Providing the definite handbook on Interpreting the Bible in all its facets is a task that is long beyond the scope of one volume and of one scholar. Despite such criticism Tate rightly claims: “This book assists readers in rec- ognizing that, while these methods do not ask the same questions or have the same focus, each one can contribute to our understanding of the biblical texts” (Preface). Other helpful dictionaries on Biblical interpretation are R. J. Coggins, J. L. Houlden (eds.), A Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation (London: SCM Press, 1990) and K. J. Vanhoozer (ed.), Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic; London: SPCK, 2005); cf. also D. E. Aune, The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2003) with its focus on rhetoric. Christoph Stenschke Rodney J. Decker, Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark with Reference to Verbal Aspect (Studies in Biblical Greek 10). Peter Lang New York, 2001. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-8204-5033-2. El estudioso que se acerca a la lingüística del Nuevo Testamento no puede sino quedar abrumado ante la numerosa bibliografía que desde 1987, presen- tación de las tesis doctorales de S.E. Porter y B.M. Fanning, se ha producido en torno a la problemática del tiempo y aspecto verbales griegos. Anteriores monografías y artículos, realizados por estudiosos de la talla de K. McKay o J. Mateos, inauguraron el actual resurgimiento de estos estudios, de los que el profesor J. Decker es un claro exponente.