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- October 31st, 2014, 8:01 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Help with classifying prepositional phrase
- Replies: 7
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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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- October 8th, 2014, 9:18 am
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: ἔρχεσθαι ἐν τινι = "bring something"?
- Replies: 5
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Re: ἔρχεσθαι ἐν τινι = "bring something"?
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.RandallButh wrote:It's standard Arabic. Didn't know he knew that.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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...