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- December 6th, 2020, 12:51 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Is this a legitimate translation of Hebrews 1:8?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12712
Re: Is this a legitimate translation of Hebrews 1:8?
Definition is always difficult. Lucian of Samosata ! Dip Chrysostom, and Plutarch are all late first or second century authors, as is Strabo. Musinius Rufus is the first century teacher of Epictetus. All are contemporary With or later than the NT writings. But all are regarded as part of the classic...
- November 22nd, 2020, 10:34 am
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: pronunciation difference between η and ει
- Replies: 18
- Views: 71455
Re: pronunciation difference between η and ει
The modern Greek,pronunciation is called iotacism. Ai, Ei, oi, I, ETA, are all pronounced the same. It makes learning correct spelling difficult for beginners in the Greek language. That is why in teaching beginning Greek I did not use this modern Greek pronunciation, though I taught students about ...
- November 12th, 2020, 12:33 pm
- Forum: Composition based on ancient texts
- Topic: Coining a phrase
- Replies: 15
- Views: 42707
Re: Coining a phrase
You should not be using the verb λέγω, which should be translated pronounce. Instead the proper verb would be ονομάζω, to give a name to something.
- October 24th, 2020, 9:30 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Meta Language
- Replies: 23
- Views: 18768
Re: Meta Language
Look it up in the mega Lexikon yes hellenikes glosses.
It is the OXford lexicon os Greek.
It is the OXford lexicon os Greek.
- October 3rd, 2020, 12:42 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Answer Key to Machen
- Replies: 16
- Views: 33852
Re: Answer Key to Machen
I agree with Barry. I learned Attic Greek from the text book by Herbert Weir Smythe, the author of the standard grammar of Classical Greek. After that we read Xenophon’s Anabasis, Homer’s Odyssey, and Plato’s Apology. In graduate school We read widely all of Homer’s two epics in two semesters, three...
- September 13th, 2020, 11:53 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Eph 2:8 τοῦτο ... τὸ δῶρον
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4639
Re: Eph 2:8 τοῦτο ... τὸ δῶρον
Barry Hofstetter is 100% right. Trading extensively in ancient Greek texts is indispensable.
I recall reading a Greek historian who began his text with a δε’ as the second word. We debated for an hour how that term should be translated, ending, as I recall, withe the translation “now”.
I recall reading a Greek historian who began his text with a δε’ as the second word. We debated for an hour how that term should be translated, ending, as I recall, withe the translation “now”.
- March 30th, 2016, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: τοῦτ᾽ εστιν
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20263
Re: τοῦτ᾽ εστιν
What Carl Conrad writes makes great good sense. Thus discussion is about Logomachy! Whether ife is one word or two makes no difference to its pronunciation or meaning. One might trust that scribes of Greek mss knew how to write it.
- February 5th, 2016, 1:10 pm
- Forum: The modern world
- Topic: Greek Composition 4x4 Challenge
- Replies: 71
- Views: 428989
Re: Greek Composition 4x4 Challenge
When I took Greek Composition in Grad School under Prof. Saul Levin his rule was that I had to be able to cite an ancient author who used the vocabulary in the sense I used it or the construction in the way I used it. I paged LSJ extensively to validate my translation of Lincoln's Gettisburg Address...
- January 24th, 2016, 12:09 pm
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Concordance including all the versions?
- Replies: 104
- Views: 3118529
Re: Concordance including all the versions?
Please observe standard terminology. Youn are seeking to list all variant readings, not versions.
Version is the technical term for translations of the original text (i.e. the Greek) , e. g, Latin Armenian, Coptic, Syriac, etc.
Version is the technical term for translations of the original text (i.e. the Greek) , e. g, Latin Armenian, Coptic, Syriac, etc.

- January 19th, 2016, 12:58 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Eph. 2:1, 5 and ὄντας with the dative case of the clause
- Replies: 17
- Views: 12410
Re: Eph. 2:1, 5 and ὄντας with the dative case of the clause
Please note that Ephesians 1:3-12 is one sentence. The main verb is implied n the Blessed be the God etc in v. 3. You are discussing the verb in a relative clause.