Muraoka’s Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint

For my notes on how Muraoka’s lexicon compares to other Ancient Greek lexica, see this post: Comparing Lexical Entries. My copy of Muraoka’s Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (2009) arrived in the mail from Eisenbrauns and I’ve taken some time to post a few pictures of this very beautifully bound book. Next week, when I [...]

Reader’s Greek & Hebrew Bible

Henry Neufeld at Participatory Bible Study has an excellent post up discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the so-called “reader’s editions” that have been popping up like flies over the past couple years: A Look at Reader’s Version of Greek and Hebrew Bible My favorite quote from his thoughts is something I’ve said and thought [...]

Hummus and Naan

Makin’ homemade Hummus & Naan for our camping trip this weekend! So exciting…so, so good.

Going Camping

I’ll be out on Friday night through Monday on a camping trip with my church, so don’t expect much to appear here. But after almost two and a half years of blogging, there’s got to be something you could read here while I’m gone.

Hebrew 1:1-4

Clifford Kvidahl has written an extensive discussion of Hebrew 1:1-4: Hebrews 1.1-4: A (Not So) Brief Analysis

Translating Pragmatics – Lessons from the Apostolic Fathers

Since Topic & Focus Posts are popular right now, I thought I’d throw one up that’s been sitting on the sidelines since March.* Right now, I’m going through examples of discontinuous phrases in the Apostolic Fathers where the head noun is first. We’ve been calling this structure Y2 Hyperbaton. Because its been a while since [...]

Linguistics & Conservative Theology

Over at his new page, Wanna be a Bible Scholar, Patrick McCullough asked a question in the comments after I wrote up a little note about the benefits of studying linguistics as a related field for Biblical studies: I’d be interested to hear whether you feel many people taking a linguistics angle on biblical studies [...]

Prof Chrys Caragounis Comments

Prof Chrys Caragounis commented on my comments on his book from my post several days ago. Feel free to check them out: Five Biblical Studies Books that I’m Stupider for Reading And again, the title was hyperbole – there is value is all of the books listed, even Ryken’s.

Gems in the Biblical Scholarship

My Google Alerts e-mail for “New Testament Greek” came today and I found these couple Gems: Will you read the original DEAD SEA SCROLLS when they come to the Internet? Two of the comments are: The Dead Sea Scrolls verify that the “New Testament” was originally written in Hebrew, not Greek, as the early “church” [...]

Just so you LXXer’s know…

I started working on the Kaige text of 2 Samuel/Reigns today. I’ll write about anything that pops out at me.