Textual History and Mark 10:36

After the lengthy discussion of the construction V+Vsubjunctive in Mark 10:36, I thought it would be worthwhile to look at some possible paths of development for the variation we find in Mark 10:36. What I want to demonstrate here is the high value that a broader knowledge of the Greek language and its history can [...]

ΘΕΛΩ + Subjunctive in Mark 10:36

The syntax of Mark 10:36 has been discussed at length of B-Greek a few months ago. (Mark 10:36 Τί θέλετέ [με] ποιήσω ὑμῖν;). Generally, speaking we all didn’t really know what to do with the construction or the particular reading in this verse that the editors of the NA27 had chosen as most likely being [...]

RBL Review of On Conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch

A book review of of Tjen Anwar’s On conditionals in the Greek Pentateuch: A study of translational syntax (PDF LINK) appeared in the RBL RSS feed this morning when I was doing my reading. It’s a good review, though it really doesn’t do much beyond summarizing the contents. That’s not a bad thing. At the [...]

Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew

This just popped up on Eisenbraun’s New & Noteworthy RSS feed: Radical Frame Semantics and Biblical Hebrew:Exploring Lexical Semantics by Stephen Shead. Biblical Interpretation Series – BIS 108 Brill Academic Publishers, 2011 List Price: $182.00 Your Price: $172.90 You save: $9.10 It’s depressingly expensive (as most Brill books are), but I’d say that it’ll also [...]

Greek Pedagogy

I’m quickly growing to enjoy Daniel Streett’s blog posts. Be sure to read today’s: The Man Behind the Curtain—Or, The Dirty Truth About Most New Testament Greek Classes. Enjoy!

Bad Book Binding

I was reminded by a comment in my previous post by James Spinti of our shared frustration with academic publishers of using print-on-demand for highly specialized and highly priced books. Here’s one of the worst examples I’ve seen from my own library. Here’s the offender: Here’s its final page count (not including 30 pages of [...]

Streett on Reading Greek

I discovered this morning not only that Daniel Streett has a blog, but that he has written an excellent post on what it means to be able to *truly* read Greek. He really rips apart the idea of decoding and translating Greek. I love it. It looks like I’ll be adding another blog to Google [...]

On the Necessity Buying Expensive Books

There is some discussion on B-Greek about “Tools of the Trade” right now. The discussion is primarily the necessity of biblical languages that arose from Dr. Larry Hurtado’s blog post about the importance of knowing (really knowing) biblical languages and modern research languages for the discipline (incidentally, I, at one point, wrote to Dr. Hurtado [...]