BibleTech:2010

The speaker list for BibleTech:2010 is up finally. I’ll be presenting once again, though this year’s topic is a change of directions from last years. Here’s my abstract: In 2006 with the release of Logos 3, huge strides were made in the field of Greek language databases with the introduction of the Opentext.org Syntactically Analyzed [...]

Literature Musings

Some of Graham Greene’s short stories can get really, really creapy: like the one where the guy in the movie theater reports his own murder.

Playing with My Parser

I’ve been playing with my Greek parser lately and I decided to annotate a few verses of text. I did Mark 1:1-2 with a free translation. Unfortunately, I haven’t yet determined how to simply copy and paste this and keep everything aligned in WordPress, so I’ve just done a screen capture instead. I also didn’t [...]

Koine Greek Phonology

So, uhm, who in the world took the time to make the Wikipedia page for Koine Greek Phonology so incredibly thorough and surprisingly accurate? Somebody with some training has a lot of time on their hands.

Semantics, Pragmatics & Pronouns

Steve wrote the post that I seriously considered writing last night when I first saw Mounce’s post on emphatic pronouns (Sunday: HERE; Monday: HERE — though it’s the same post in both cases). I’ll say up front that Steve is completely right on this one. To begin with, even the very concept of the “emphatic [...]

Greek Word Order Disseration

Rich Rhodes mentioned it in a recent post over at Better Bibles and then today, one of my blog readers e-mailed me an online link to it: Thetic Constructions in Koine Greek: εἰμί ‘be’, γίνομαι ‘occur’, ἔρχομαι ‘come’, ἰδού/ἴδε ‘behold’, and complement clauses of ὁράω ‘see’ by N. A. Bailey. The dissertation is currently available [...]

Translation Question

Why in the world is it a strength for a translation to be made within the Tyndale & KJV stream of tradition???

People are Stupid

Well, maybe they’re not that stupid.