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…
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 …
I have always read it as intransitive here, quite surprised to see the commentaries and several translations take it as transitive. Culy wrote:αὐτούς. Accusative direct object of ἐξεστακέναι.Culy, M. M., & Parsons, M. C. (2003). Acts: A Handbook o…
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 …
“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
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. …
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 …
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…
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…
τὸ περὶ οὗ, simply the subject, ὃ τοῦτό ἐστιν, the predicate, and then “the rest in order.”You keep using the word “simply,” but it does not mean what you think it means. See how well it matches Helma Dik’s analysis of Greek word order.I would have to…
My understanding, after reading Decker/Porter/Black, is aorists are the verbs that carries the story line. Present tenses draw attention to something, either a new development to start a new section, or to something Mark thinks is important.Not just t…
In the older thread which I linked in a previous post in this thread we saw that Nestle 1904 was made mechanically by majority vote. So I ask again, why wouldn’t that work today? Take NA27, SBLGNT and THGNT. Remove punctuation, paragraphs and capitali…
Now, what articles or resources, preferably accessible online would you recommend for further study of this (of course anything by Dik is good, my second favorite classicist after Eleanor Dickey), and what is the best resource overall?My recommended r…
In Mark, the present tense seems to be used in 4 ways so far: (1) to give prominence to specific verbs, (2) to draw attention to a speech that follows (2:5; λέγει), in direct speech (ἀφίενταί; 2:5), or (4) to mark a transition in the story (ἔρχονται; …
Several Latin witnesses (and the Gothic), misunderstanding the Greek, translate Principium, qui et loquor vobis (“ the Beginning, even I who speak to you”). The Ethiopic omits ὅτι (“ the Beginning, and I told you so”). The Bodmer Papyrus II (?66) read…
With infinitives “tense” is a fiction of metalanguage. (Tense only occurs in the indicative verbs.) The infinitive προσενέγκαι explains what they could not do. The aorist refers to the complete event, including the end point of the event–they couldn…
