To Whom It May Concern:

This is my 1000th post.

Grammar of the Papyri

For all you German speakers out there who also just so happen to know Greek, I found an edition of Mayser’s Grammar of the Papyri on Archive.org: HERE.

Texts for Hellenistic Greek Grammar

Micheal Palmer is looking for feedback on his blog post on the Scope of a Hellenistic Greek Grammar.

Questionable Grammar & Theology Statements.

At the core of Israel’s theological grammar are sentences governed by strong verbs of transformation. Such sentences are so familiar to us that we may fail to notice the oddity of their grammar and therefore neglect such a theological beginning point. This focus on sentences signifies that Israel is characteristically concerned with the action of [...]

BibleTech:2010 Interupted

It was quite the realization this evening: that BibleTech:2010 is not once again in Seattle as it has been the passed couple years. When I submitted my proposal back at the beginning of November, I had made that assumption. Wrongly. So now I need to figure something out. I either need to find the extra [...]

Aspect & Aktionsart

Micheal Palmer posted an old B-Greek post of his explaining Aktionsart that helpfully explains the issues involved. In my view, it rather helpfully makes it clear that how Robertson and the other old grammarians used the term differs signficantly from how it has been used in the past few decades. Specifically that the distinction between [...]

Book Reviews & Real Life

So for the past two weeks, I was only working one day a week at my cafe job. And enjoying it. It was because of that very small bit of time at work that I was able to get a nice chunk of translation/interlinear work done (i.e. the job I actually enjoy), while at the [...]

Grammar Mistakes in Hebrew Grammars

My wife showed this to me in her Hebrew grammar and my jaw dropped. I pulled a screen clipping off the Amazon preview of the first edition, which has the same mistake and I thought I’d share it with you: This is from page 108 in the first edition of Biblical Hebrew: A Text and [...]

Book Review: Verbs of Transference by Paul Danove – Part I

Danove, Paul. A Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference. Library of New Testament Studies 329. Studies in New Testament Greek 13. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2009. Many thanks for Continuum/T & T Clark for a review copy – and for the benefit of full disclosure, the link above is through [...]

Book Review: Verbs of Transference by Paul Danove – Introduction

Danove, Paul. A Grammatical and Exegetical Study of New Testament Verbs of Transference. Library of New Testament Studies 329. Studies in New Testament Greek 13. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 2009. Many thanks for Continuum/T & T Clark for a review copy – and for the benefit of full disclosure, the link above is through [...]