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by James Ernest
December 13th, 2023, 6:43 pm
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: Hymn to Aphrodite
Replies: 2
Views: 10274

Re: Hymn to Aphrodite

Thank you! I think you got it.
I've been reading only NT and later Christian Greek for too long . . .
by James Ernest
December 13th, 2023, 2:32 pm
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: Hymn to Aphrodite
Replies: 2
Views: 10274

Hymn to Aphrodite

τὸν μέν, ἐπὴν δὴ πρῶτον ἴδῃ φάος ἠελίοιο, Νύμφαι μιν θρέψουσιν ὀρεσκῷοι βαθύκολποι, αἳ τόδε ναιετάουσιν ὄρος μέγα τε ζάθεόν τε: αἵ ῥ᾽ οὔτε θνητοῖς οὔτ᾽ ἀθανάτοισιν ἕπονται. This is from https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0013.tlg005.perseus-grc1:247 What's that rho in ...
by James Ernest
August 25th, 2023, 2:47 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: errata?
Replies: 3
Views: 1983

errata?

RE: Rodney Whitacre, A Grammar of the Greek New Testament https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/7927/a-grammar-of-new-testament-greek.aspx A Grammar of New Testament Greek Rodney A. Whitacre HARDCOVER; Published: 11/30/2021 ISBN: 978-0-8028-7927-1 Price: $ 49.99 522 Pages Trim Size, in inches: 6.125 x 9...
by James Ernest
June 17th, 2023, 8:55 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Benjamin Kantor on the pronunciation of NT Greek
Replies: 2
Views: 1619

Re: Benjamin Kantor on the pronunciation of NT Greek

Oops! Yes. I see now that I missed some posts in Feb and May!
Thanks.
James
by James Ernest
June 16th, 2023, 7:57 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Benjamin Kantor on the pronunciation of NT Greek
Replies: 2
Views: 1619

Benjamin Kantor on the pronunciation of NT Greek

I would like to make b-greek members aware of two new books on the pronunciation of Greek in the NT era. The first is a magnum opus: The Pronunciation of New Testament Greek: Judeo-Palestinian Greek Phonology and Orthography from Alexander to Islam , by Benjamin Kantor. This is an 895-page hardcover...
by James Ernest
February 17th, 2018, 7:59 am
Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
Topic: help with prayer text, please
Replies: 5
Views: 3669

Re: help with prayer text, please

I keep wanting to read καν as German keine. :D Seems it should say ου μόνον ου δια λόγου προσέφερον (pardon the random diacritics).
by James Ernest
February 17th, 2018, 7:35 am
Forum: Greek Texts
Topic: Translating Athanasius
Replies: 13
Views: 23420

Re: Translating Athanasius

Hi, I just happened to drop in here. Seems to me you weren’t picking up that ἐξ αὐτῆς refers to the Theotokos—a neuter form, but the feminine form is used ad sensum.

(And regarding the subject line—you know you’re reading a later work, not Athanasios? at least according to scholars in general.)
by James Ernest
June 9th, 2014, 9:57 am
Forum: Other
Topic: tributes to Rod Decker
Replies: 1
Views: 2284

tributes to Rod Decker

Rod Decker's denomination's online magazine has posted an obituary:
http://baptistbulletin.org/?p=34191

and several tributes:
http://baptistbulletin.org/?p=34195
by James Ernest
May 27th, 2014, 12:13 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Rodney Decker
Replies: 5
Views: 4182

Re: Rodney Decker

I am thankful for this forum, which first brought me into contact with Rod. We met in person a number of times to establish the collaboration that will result later this year in the publication of Reading Koine Greek, mostly recently at Baltimore last November (with his wife, Linda). For me the fina...

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