Couple Recent Book Purchases

Many thanks go out to those of you who bought books from me over the past few months (Jeff, your volume should arrive by Monday — perhaps even by the end of the week). All of the books I sold in January made it possible for this major purchase: A Grammar of the Greek Papyri [...]

Paul Danove Review

I’m uploading the pdf of my complete review of Paul Danove’s book in its entirety. Total, it is a seven page review — so I’m going into the territory of the longer RBL review lengths. I’ve never been one for brevity, though it is something I strive for. Review of Danove’s Verbs of Transference.pdf

Cambridge’s Interesting Enterprise

Cambridge University Press has recently (in the past year or so) begun to release what appears to be either short print runs or print-on-demand titles of old long out of print works. There are a number of very nice titles that are typically difficult to find – even on Google books. Cambridge Library Collection – [...]

Breaking Down the Hellenistic Greek Verb

Let’s start with a root for a verb that takes 1st Aorist morphology (we’ll call them “Verb Class 1″ or V1): *λύ destroy.imperfective V1 verbs have roots that default to imperfective aspect (the “.” marks multiple semantic meanings on a single morpheme; a dash marks morpheme breaks, as seen below). That is to say there [...]

The “Tense” Terminology Problem

Should a future Hellenistic Greek Reference Grammar do away with the traditional & problematic terminology? The table of contents I proposed a few weeks ago did, but do you think it is worth the effort to try to make the change? Specifically, I’m talking about the major problems with the terms: “Present” & “Aorist” which [...]

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

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. Part I can be accessed HERE. A complete PDF can be downloaded HERE. Many thanks for Continuum/T & T Clark for a review copy [...]

Blogging Plans for the Next Two Weeks

I’ll be posting some preliminary discussions from my upcoming paper for BibleTech:2010 over the next couple weeks. I’ve already discussed at length Opentext.org’s database several months ago, so my focus will chiefly be on the Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament. We’ll be looking at the following topics: The Clause in Head-driven Phrase Structure [...]

Returning to Consonant Clusters

My comments about the Greek word-medial consonant clusters -φθ- and -χθ- being pronounced [pθ] and [kθ] (<– IPA)  caused a bit of discussion (and many thanks for Suzanne’s related, neat link). I know that some found my claims wanting, but in my studies of other Greek issues (particularly Greek voice & my continuing review of [...]

To All You OT Guys

Mike Heiser has just blogged about a number of Old Testament projects at Logos that are literally a handfull of orders away from going into production/development — including the Göttingen LXX, the critical edition. Seriously awesome. HERE.

Quoting Robertson

Believe it or not, I pulled these quotes together completely separate from Micheal Palmer’s post on Middle Voice. In fact, I compiled them the day before he even posted and while we have been known to e-mail each other, that did not happen here. In any case, what follow is a compilation of quotes from [...]