ΕΝ ΕΦΕΣΩ

“ΕΝ ΕΦΕΣΩ” is “in Ephesus” in English. Ephesus is a ancient city in Asia Minor  and the city that the Letter to the Ephesians is may have been sent. Some NT manuscripts do not contain the phrase. This is one of the harder textual problems in the New Testament because it goes beyond the text and into the question of authorship, recipients, and location.

Unfortunately, the title is less than apt these days since my interests and focus have narrowed since I began this blog in 2007. When I began I was writing about all sorts of topics related to the New Testament, but these days I write more about language, linguistics, and Greek grammar than anything else.

My name is Mike Aubrey. I have a degree in Hellenistic Greek and am currently working on graduate/postgraduate work. I’ve done graduate work at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics and am currently preparing for postgrad work elsewhere. Currently, My wife and I live in the greater Vancouver area as she completes her MA in linguistics & exegesis.

My primary interests include Linguistics, particularly formal syntax and morphology with their application to Hellenistic Greek, but also hermeneutics and translation theory. I’ve also spend a good amount of time studying Russian as well as a African language called Supyire. I have a side interest in pragmatics, mainly because Greek syntax tends to be more influenced by pragmatics than it is by things like Subjects and Objects like English. Linguistically, I’m somewhat eclectic, having interests in a variety of linguistic frameworks, but I focus on Lexical-Functional Grammar and Role and Reference Grammar as my main interests. They complement each other in different areas.

The majority of what I write here consists of initial drafts of various thoughts I have on a number of topics related to Hellenistic Greek. Nothing I’ve put together here is thoroughly edited or anything like that, though I generally go back through posts on occasion and polish them up. Others fall by the wayside.

I’m also a librarian and rock climber. I climb a 5.10.

And just so you know, while you can leave comments on this page, I typically try to keep it clear, so any comment here will probably disappear eventually.