Doug Estes says Sell your Kidney & Buy Christidis

He says: But as the influence of language study (and seminary) wanes, and the number of Greek textbooks grows, there is a new kind of Greek textbook every Greek student should beg, borrow or sell a kidney to get a copy of: A.-F. Christidis’ A History of Ancient Greek: From the Beginnings to Late Antiquity. [...]

In the Mail: Canadian Edition

I don’t know if I’ve ever done one of these posts, but I’ve just received a couple books that I’ll be reviewing: Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference: A Case Frame Guide to Interpretation and Translation (Library of New Testament Studies) by Paul Danove. Articular Infinitives in the Greek of the [...]

Discoll & Targums – Misspeaking Left and Right

Ark Art Boulet popped up in my google reader this morning with a video and comments on Discoll’s use of Targum Neofiti, which is pricariously uses to show that the Trinity is in Genesis 1:1. Now granted its definitely a better argument than saying that Jesus, the Alef & Tav are in Genesis 1:1 in [...]

Logos for Mac Review

Daniel Doleys over at Text, Community & Mission just complete a multi-part review of Logos Bible Software for Mac. It seems that he rather enjoyed the software. Be sure to check it out: Installation and Support Contents & Searching Support Videos Original Language Searches Final Assessment

Interview with Larry Hurtado

Some have already pointed to it, but its worth repeating. Go check out the interview with Larry Hurtado of the University of Edinburgh by Matt at BROADCAST DEPTH: Interview with Larry Hurtado My favorite quote: Commit yourself also to fair and self-critical engagement with scholarship.  My PhD supervisor (E. J. Epp) insisted on one rule above [...]

Reading Dead Grammarians

I’m totally ripping this off directly from the B-Greek list, but its definitely worth it if I can get a few more people to see this little discussion. Several days ago, Elizabeth Kline wrote this: In James 3:3 we see an example of a preposed genitive noun TWN hIPPWN. One way to read it, TWN [...]

Discontinuous Syntax Part V

This is a continuation of my series examining Devine and Stephen’s book Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek. Today’s post consists of much rewriting of about 15 pages I lost back in February when my hard drive died. See also: Part I Part II Part III Part IV Weak Focus Y2 Hyperbaton[1] Most commonly, Y2 Hyperbaton [...]

The Gospel Message

[WARNING: THEOLOGY POST] Truly, is there any better summary and symbol of the gospel message like the Eucharist?  –I’m mean Lord’s Supper, uhm, Communion, uh, the Table of Remembrance? I mean really. [Okay, back to Greek]

Finish this Sentence:

The pathetically small llama knitted nervously under the _______________________.

Opentext.org: More Inconsistency

So there’s over 1600 instances of the negator οὐ in the Greek New Testament. In the majority of cases in Opentext.org, these are tagged as Adjunct –> Word Group –> Head Term –> Word –> οὐ. But there are 13 instances in Opentext.org’s database where οὐ is as a Conjunction. Why? No clue.