Books for Sale from Amazon

These are books that I currently have listed on Amazon for sale, but I figured that if anyone was interested enough in any of them, I could get you a better deal and avoid Amazon’s extra commission charges for the books. I was a little apprehensive about trying to sell these here. They’re more expensive [...]

Finished Reading

I’ve been reading it off and on for more than a year – mostly in the evenings in bed just before I go to sleep, but I’ve finally finished R. T. France’s The Gospel of Matthew (NICNT) I know many of you think its odd that I read commentaries, but I love it, Its great [...]

Basic Annotated Linguistics Bibliography

This won’t be long, but a few people asked for it and its worth writing about in any case, I suppose. David Crystal’s Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics (The Language Library). Now I know that this book looks expensive. But the secret of it is two fold: 1) Get the paperback. 2) Get the previous [...]

Photo Dabbling – Biblioblogging or Biblio-Linguistic Blogging?

I wasn’t satisfied with the Biblical Studies Blog picture from the Top 50 Biblioblogs site: So I decided to make my own – in two different incarnations: The first is in just plain old IPA accurately reflecting the pronunciation of “linguistics.” The second is also IPA, but I chose all sorts of characters that don’t [...]

Nijay Gupta on Campbell

Nijay Gupta has provided some of his thoughts on Campbell’s Basics book. HERE

Current Studies in Greek Word Order: Some Musings

I was reading Dik’s book Word Order in Greek Tragic Dialogue in Amazon’s preview, curious about what she says about Devine and Stephen’s work (Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek, 1999), which came out after her first book on word order in Herodotus (Word Order in Ancient Greek: A Pragmatic Account of Word Order Variation in Herodotus,1995). [...]

Hope and Reconcilliation

This post is a sort of response to a discussion I had with a friend. I don’t know if he’ll even see it, but its worth the attempt. Am I naive for thinking that there are better ways than simply fighting and killing terrorists? I think not. Tragically, just war is often necessary, but does [...]

More Thoughts on Vocab Learning

Chris Heard at Higgaion has a great discussion of how he teaches and prepares students for his exams: In class on Friday, I conducted a brief study session for the final examination. After giving students some basic information about the format and scope of the exam, I had them take out a blank sheet of [...]

Learning Greek Vocabulary

When you’re trying to learn a new word, here’s a tip. Put it in a sentence. If you’ve gone through a year of grammar, you could probably do it. You’re taught about 300 words. Put those words to good use when you’re learning new ones. You’ll develop a better hold on the ones you know [...]

A Fantastic Book

I cannot tell you how good this book is: Invitation to the Septuagint by Karen Jobes & Moises Silva