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by Barry Hofstetter
October 31st, 2014, 8:01 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Help with classifying prepositional phrase
Replies: 7
Views: 2067

Re: Help with classifying prepositional phrase

Thanks for the clarification. Question ... is there a good basic book on prepositions you (or any others here) would recommend, not too advanced, just a good overview. Attention has recently been called in this forum to a new "Interpretive Lexicon of New Testament Greek" ( http://www.zond...
by Barry Hofstetter
October 30th, 2014, 10:27 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Rev2:23ὑμῖν ἑκάστῳ,6:11αὐτοῖς ἑκάστῳ,21:21ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστος
Replies: 12
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Re: Rev2:23ὑμῖν ἑκάστῳ,6:11αὐτοῖς ἑκάστῳ,21:21ἀνὰ εἷς ἕκαστο

My conclusion is that students should learn to read Greek from the Byzantine text for long enough to get used to its turn of phrase in straightened out Greek, and then read the eclectic text with its most probably accurate (somewhere in the early stages of transmission) text. Alternatively, student...
by Barry Hofstetter
October 29th, 2014, 5:57 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Help with classifying prepositional phrase
Replies: 7
Views: 2067

Re: Help with classifying prepositional phrase

What Stephen said. I would add that it's practically a textbook example of the preposition ἐκ used in the partitive sense. To emphasize further, it is a category error to look for the use of the genitive when a preposition is involved -- one rather looks to the usage of the preposition.
by Barry Hofstetter
October 26th, 2014, 6:07 am
Forum: Grammars
Topic: New edition of Athenaze.
Replies: 2
Views: 12830

Re: New edition of Athenaze.

I think you are going to have to wait until Nov 14 to find out. You can always find the second edition if the third for some reason becomes unsuitable. As for textbook as it stands, one of its strengths is the readings. They are long and give the student a lot of reading practice. That's also the re...
by Barry Hofstetter
October 17th, 2014, 11:42 am
Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
Topic: 2 Cor 2:4 τὴν ἀγάπην ἵνα γνῶτε Word Order
Replies: 6
Views: 2880

Re: 2 Cor 2:4 τὴν ἀγάπην ἵνα γνῶτε Word Order

Well that no matter what our expectations native and fluent spaeakers of a language may confound us by doing unexpected things. What do we always say? Unusual word order calls attention to itself. Here I would see the emphasis on love as the object of what you should know.
by Barry Hofstetter
October 15th, 2014, 4:22 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Ephesians 6:17 ῥῆμα θεοῦ
Replies: 5
Views: 3583

Re: Ephesians 6:17 ῥῆμα θεοῦ

I have to admit that until I read this post it never even occurred to me that it could be anything else other than an explanatory relative pronoun as Carl explicates. Of course, the first thing we learn about the relative pronoun is that it agrees with its antecedent in number and gender, and that t...
by Barry Hofstetter
October 8th, 2014, 9:18 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: ἔρχεσθαι ἐν τινι = "bring something"?
Replies: 5
Views: 2089

Re: ἔρχεσθαι ἐν τινι = "bring something"?

RandallButh wrote:It's standard Arabic. Didn't know he knew that.
Just having a quick look at the passages cited, it certainly doesn't have to mean that, and in fact I think would violate the sense, so I'm very suspicious that it's not legit.
by Barry Hofstetter
October 7th, 2014, 1:46 am
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: ὁ Οἰκονομικὸς τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος (ἀναγιγνώσκωμεν)
Replies: 153
Views: 23991

Re: ὁ Οἰκονομικὸς τοῦ Ξενοφῶντος (ἀναγιγνώσκωμεν)

You guys are doing quite well, actually, Stephen, I like the various parallels you are finding with NT materials, quite helpful. I'm taking a break from Lucian to read the Oeconomicus. I've read other Xenophon, but never that. So far good fun.
by Barry Hofstetter
October 4th, 2014, 6:23 am
Forum: Lexicons
Topic: Robinson, Duncan and Negris, Lexicon of the New Testament
Replies: 8
Views: 9261

Re: Robinson, Duncan and Negris, Lexicon of the New Testamen

I won't say, especially without looking at it, that such a resource is useless, but why bother with a lexicon that doesn't take into account the papyri and other discoveries/advances made since the 1830's?
by Barry Hofstetter
October 2nd, 2014, 11:49 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Correct Translation of παρουσία
Replies: 26
Views: 11560

Re: Correct Translation of παρουσία

There was an ongoing discussion on the translation of παρουσία in 2003 on ibiblio.org: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2003-April/025058.html Among other things, it was said: “ The conclusion on the basis of the points above is that the primary tool for an understanding of PAROUSIA is th...

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