Hasan, R. (2009). The Place of Context in a Systemic Functional Model. In J. Webster, & M. A. K. Halliday (Eds.), Continuum Companion to Systemic Functional Linguistics (pp. 166-189). London: Continuum. has been cited by the following article: ABSTRACT: While much work in biblical studies has been offered in the form of theological exposition and historical critical speculation of literary origins of the gospels, few modern biblical studies scrutinize the language of these gospels from rigorous linguistic criteria. This paper takes a discourse analytic approach from the field of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) founded by M. A. K. Halliday. The notion of cohesive chaining is taken in order to evaluate the level of literary unity in the original Greek of the episode of the transfiguration narrative found within the Gospel of Matthew. Cohesive chaining will be defined; its function within the greater sociolinguistic theory of SFL will be examined, and then the concept will be directly applied. The study concludes with a unique contribution demonstrating how these cohesive chains are then unified via choices in verbal aspect as the grammar that not only solidifies semantic continuity among those chains, but contours the discourse using a scheme of markedness that signals the prioritization of its message. The hope of this study is to reinforce the recent paradigm shift of biblical research utilizing modern linguistic paradigms as tools to transform biblical interpretation and exegesis into a rigorously discourse-centered linguistic methodology. Exploring the Organizing Patterns of Doings of the Material Process in Tamil: A Systemic Functional Linguistics Approach Open Journal of Social Sciences Vol.9 No.6 , 10.4236/jss.2021.96016 Anisotropic Continuum Stored Energy Functional Solved by Lie Group and Differential Geometry Advances in Pure Mathematics Vol.8 No.7 , 10.4236/apm.2018.87037 The Term “Complement” in Systemic Functional Grammar: A Review of Its Theoretical Problems and Implications Open Journal of Modern Linguistics Vol.14 No.1 , January 10.4236/ojml.2024.141002