Introduction: Verbal aspect and exegesis -- Verbal aspect theory -- What is verbal aspect? -- The history of verbal aspect -- Perfective aspect -- Imperfective aspect -- The problem of the perfect -- Verbal aspect and New Testament text -- Verbal lexeme basics -- Present and imperfect tense-forms -- Aorist and future tense-forms -- Perfect and pluperfect tense-forms -- More participles -- A concluding postscript : space and time.