I am recording some audio in Greek, and I have to identify passage references like Κατά Ιωάννην 1:1-2.How would you say that out loud? Does anyone know how this is said in modern Greek?Statistics: Posted by Jonathan Robie — August 1st, 2018, 12:22 pm…
There are many ancient and medieval monolingual Greek lexicons, such as those attributed to Hesychius, Harpocration, Pollux, Moeris, Aelius Dionysius, Orus, and Orion. There is also a big old lexicon called Suda.https://www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/201…
Hi all, just a quick question on whether it is acceptable to read imperatives such as those in Philippians 4:4 (Χαίρετε ἐν κυρίῳ πάντοτε· πάλιν ἐρῶ, χαίρετε) and 1 Thess 5:16 (Πάντοτε χαίρετε)to rejoice as encouragements and not as commands. I frequen…
Now when we have at least three modern scholarly critical texts – NA, SBLGNT and Tyndale House GNT – would it be reasonable to mechanically create a “Majority of Modern Critical Greek New Testaments”, MMCGNT, selecting text by majority vote?Producing …
a contemporary example, The following command/instruction: “Put your hands behind your head and walk backwards … “Has a different meaning if it is spoken by:A: A ballet instructor. B: A police officer with a Glock in his hand.No fussing over the co…
I’d strongly recommend against thinking of the historical present (HP) as a highlighting device and instead to think more concretely about what it signals. This was one of the most difficult chapter to write in my discourse grammar. The first version …
The Iceberg principle demonstrates the inferential component of human speech. What appears above the water is the code, what is hidden below the water is the shared cognitive framework which allows inferential meaning to be understood. It’s a mistake …
“Old Testament Quotations in the New Testament: A Complete Survey” by Archer and Chirichigno has a full treatment of all quotations in a nice format, I don’t believe there’s much analysis, so you’ll have to supply your own.Statistics: Posted by Nathan…
Intriguing, Scott, but let’s remember to restrict the discussion to Greek vocabulary, grammar and syntax.Statistics: Posted by Barry Hofstetter — July 16th, 2018, 7:08 pm
This is the basic structure of my thinking so far. Nowhere near complete and hacked together in my break at work. Any suggestions on how to develop itI suspect that a common objection to my view of depression from a Christian perspective would be to r…
The best way forward as I see it is support from granting agencies. Many of your examples, Dag Haug, Perseus, climate science, etc., all had government grant support. European grant agencies are beginning to insist that the results they fund be open. …
Is there a good cognitive-linguistic paper on Greek imperatives? Any pointers from the linguists? @MAubrey? @Stephen Carlson? @serunge?(This ping feature didn’t send me a notification.) I’m not aware of any. I just know that the simple first-year Gr…
You might want to carefully read through Maurice Robinson’s 55 page discourse on the Byzantine text. The Robinson-Pierpont edition is a real text and differences in NA27 are footnoted for any concerned. It has a commons licence that is very workable.S…
Actually the targum (a later development) is compsed with older midrashic material in mind and that midrashic material is behind John’s opening. This material is reflected in the all encompassing blessing recorded in the Mishnah from earlier practice …
I have used/heard ἁπὸ and μέχρι for specifying range. Ordinals are preferred but I confess to lapsing to cardinals when my brain can’t bring up the right ordinal.Someone who knows ancient Greek well and speaks modern Greek fluently suggested this in e…
If anyone wants to see Levinsohn’s discourse analysis of this text, these resources could be useful:Mark, with Levinsohn’s discourse analysisGuide to reading the discourse analysis markingsStatistics: Posted by Jonathan Robie — July 30th, 2018, 3:03 p…
Thanks both. Jonathan, great example. Thank youStatistics: Posted by Matthew Longhorn — October 5th, 2018, 4:01 am
Sterling did you notice that the Greek text is punctuated as a question? Your offered translation evidently doesn’t take into account this punctuation. If it was so straightforward a sentence then why is it viewed as a question? More to it than you se…
Sterling did you notice that the Greek text is punctuated as a question? Your offered translation evidently doesn’t take into account this punctuation. If it was so straightforward a sentence then why is it viewed as a question? More to it than you se…
Thank you for the references. The lexicons mentioned in the links are from the modern period (16th century onward).In the study which I am doing, I want to quote Latin definitions of certain Greek words from lexicons produced at the time when the Koin…
