Prominence in New Testament Discourse: Galatians 1,11–2,10 as a Test Case1 DAVID I. YOON Paul's testimony of his post-conversion experience in Galatians—the only place in the New Testament this is found—is the starting point for the rest of his polemic against his opponents who avert the gospel he first taught his readers. What is interesting is that he highlights or emphasizes certain portions of his testimony, using the linguistic method of prominence. As others have written already, prominence in Hellenistic Greek is conveyed in many ways, but one major way is by the writer's choice of verbal aspect. By first identifying a theory of prominence in the Greek of the New Testament, the paper then applies that theory to Gal 1:11–2:10 to discover that Paul emphasizes preaching and gospel related items in his testimony. Keywords: Prominence, markedness, grounding, salience, linguistic highlighting, verbal aspect, mood, Galatians, Paul. 1. Introduction2 When I started reading the Bible seriously for the first time in my life as a high school student, I learned to highlight verses that I considered at 1 Many thanks go to my doctoral advisor, Dr. Stanley Porter, for his helpful comments regarding this article. 2 Abbreviations: BDF Blass, Debrunner, and Funk BLG Biblical Languages: Greek BTL Blackwell Textbooks in Linguistics ELS Explorations in Language Study FN Filología Neotestamentaria JETS Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society JL Journal of Linguistics JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series LNTS Library for New Testament Studies LS Language in Society NTM New Testament Monographs OTM Oxford Theological Monographs SBG Studies in Biblical Greek SSL Suny Series in Linguistics TILSM Trends in Linguistics Studies and Monographs Filología Neotestamentaria - Vol. XXVI - 2013, pp. 3-25 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras - Universidad de Córdoba (España)