4 David I. Yoon the time to be important. Since I was reading the Bible a lot and attending quite a few bible studies, possibly three in a given week including Sundays, I was highlighting almost every passage I had read and studied. This resulted in a large majority of my Bible being highlighted. In fact, towards the end of my high school period, there was less un-highlighted material than highlighted material, and the highlighted parts became almost meaningless. I came to the conclusion in college that every passage in the Bible was probably important (for various purposes), and I had to seriously reconsider my highlighting methodology—I decided to renounce my ways and simply read the Bible without a highlighter in hand. So I bought a new Bible and resisted my temptation to mark it. Highlighting, or more broadly emphasizing, is pretty much a universal phenomenon in communication, whether spoken or written. In spoken communication, variation in speech is helpful, and even advocated, as evidenced by the principles in many homiletics classes where speakers are encouraged to vary intonation to draw emphasis to parts of the sermon that the speaker wants to emphasize—otherwise we would hear monotonous sermons that generate little interest from our hearers. In written communication, there are various ways in which highlighting can be accomplished. In English, italicized font is one way of emphasizing; another way is creating a separate paragraph for a pithy statement. This is usually applicable for prose and less common in academic type of writing. Nevertheless, in this paper, I am concerned with how linguistic highlighting, or prominence, is conveyed in Greek of the New Testament. This is based on the assumption that certain features of the Greek system lend themselves to communicating prominence. The way prominence is communicated in one language will be different in another language; for example, in Spanish, personal pronouns are not necessary to identify a subject but they will be used sometimes for emphasis. Estoy viviendo en Canada (“[I] am living in Canada”) is without an explicit personal pronoun (“I”), but the first person singular is inherent in the verbal form (as in Greek). But if the speaker wanted to emphasize the subject of the sentence, they might say, Yo estoy viviendo en Canada, possibly in response to a question, ¿Quien esta viviendo en Canada? (“Who is living in Canada?”). Likewise, the Greek in the New Testament also has certain linguistic features that convey prominence—and the task of identifying and analyzing them appears to be a fruitful endeavor in determining meaning and emphasis in the text. In the first section of this paper, I will define the meaning of prominence and its associated word markedness, and outline three major criteria to determine prominence in the Greek of the New Testament. In the second section of this paper, I will apply these