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- June 14th, 2022, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11171
Re: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
Since it's still on the discussion table: a. the semantics of προσ εύχεσθαι have always struck me strange if it were being construed with προς εαυτον. Would one of the Prushim pray to himself? Or was Jesus additionally negating the example by saying that God didn't hear the prayer, only the man hims...
- June 9th, 2022, 2:28 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
- Replies: 7
- Views: 11171
Re: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
You probably need to add the famous Rom 5:1 ἔχομεν or ἔχωμεν because that was one phonological word in the 1st century when read outloud to the congregations. Only those with some Greek schooling would distinguish potential written texts at Rm5.1. Ultimately even scribes could not be trusted absolut...
- June 4th, 2022, 1:19 pm
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Lexical classification resource
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21217
Re: Lexical classification resource
I sympathize, Jonathan. The issue of the wider 1st-2nd CE language only needs to be articulated because of the tendency for people to look for the coin under the streetlight. And then people become complacent because "they already have adequate tools." Fortunately, most of our sources are ...
- June 3rd, 2022, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Lexical classification resource
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21217
Re: Lexical classification resource
There is a methodological problem with using only NT data as a base: it does not represent a full cross-section of normal, common language use in the society. For example, a "NT" dictionary will list "yellow" as θειώδης, but a little kid would say ξανθός. That skewing is not addr...
- June 3rd, 2022, 11:26 am
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Lexical classification resource
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21217
Re: Lexical classification resource
Yes, you can use that, but you must filter the information so that you don't take some poetic or epic word and assume that it was in the vocabulary of a first century farmer in Derbe. Always check to see if, how, and where the word is used in Josephus, LXX, Epictetus, Plutarch, Apostolic Fathers, ev...
- June 2nd, 2022, 9:58 pm
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Lexical classification resource
- Replies: 11
- Views: 21217
Re: Lexical classification resource
Actually, the resource does not even need to be a semantic-domain dictionary. A simple English to Greek with regularly attested vocab and examples from 200BCEto200CE would be very useful. 1st century Greek-Greek or Eng-Greek would be a doorway to begin to appreciate the semantic grid within the audi...
- May 28th, 2022, 10:58 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: Greek Resources for the Blind
- Replies: 10
- Views: 28753
Re: Greek Resources for the Blind
For Greek, I would approach Apple Greece.
On Hebrew, Israel has a Blind Institute. And Apple Israel should have something in Hebrew.
On Hebrew, Israel has a Blind Institute. And Apple Israel should have something in Hebrew.
Re: Hebrew?
JasonHare wrote In §3.3.3.2, Cook describes it as a form of qāṭal that is used for irrealis mood (specifically, the optative in secondary conditionals [with לוּ and לוּלֵא]), which happens also without the vav prefix. But that is exactly the point. In veqatal in Biblical Hebrew the qatal is not a p...
Re: Hebrew?
People should be aware that there are sometimes different "Hebrew"s being taught. For example, for about 3000 years the Hebrew yiqtol and weqatal have been treated as encoding the same tense-mood-aspect in different, complementary contexts. One of the grammars above (Cook-Holmstedt) does n...
- March 8th, 2022, 4:53 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16716
Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
This example and discussion may illustrate the pitfalls of discussing one language in terms of translation into another language. English and Greek are structured differently. English does not have a good imperfective past tense, certainly not as flexible as Greek. Likewise, Greek has a structural a...