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by Matthew Longhorn
January 25th, 2024, 10:37 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Rainbow - The Making of the Synoptic Gospels Exploring the Ancient Sources
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Rainbow - The Making of the Synoptic Gospels Exploring the Ancient Sources

Ok. This is a definite fringe inclusion but including based on it arguing that the synoptic gospels are actually a translation from Hebrew which I figure folks here may have views on coming July 2024 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/making-of-the-synoptic-gospels/3A05A3B667C12FD475FE9CF20E97B4F6...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 25th, 2024, 10:23 am
Forum: Other
Topic: Pachoumi - Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks (145 euros)
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Pachoumi - Proclus' On the Hieratic Art according to the Greeks (145 euros)

Coming June 2024 https://brill.com/display/title/69653?rskey=j9O5yx&result=10 The book is a critical edition of the text with an English translation and commentary of Proclus’ On the Hieratic Art. The Hieratic Art is the Theurgic Art, theurgy, the theurgic union with the divine. Proclus describe...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 24th, 2024, 8:20 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Porter - Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible The Importance of Context (£61.20)
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Porter - Hermeneutics, Linguistics, and the Bible The Importance of Context (£61.20)

Ebook versions available. Paper version due 22nd Feb https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/hermeneutics-linguistics-and-the-bible-9780567709905/ The volume presents Stanley E. Porter's considered thoughts and reflections on key questions of meaning and context, addressing the problems of biblical interpreta...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 23rd, 2024, 3:37 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Palau - A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts from the Meerman Collection in the Bodleian Library (£65)
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Palau - A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts from the Meerman Collection in the Bodleian Library (£65)

I can only see this on Amazon at the moment and not the Bodleian Library store https://www.amazon.co.uk/Catalogue-Manuscripts-Meerman-Collection-Bodleian/dp/1851243895/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1I5OBS17ANOOY&keywords=Greek+language&qid=1706036698&s=books&sprefix=greek+language%2Cstripbooks%2C7...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 19th, 2024, 4:15 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·
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Re: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·

You might like then how the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek deals with this. In the section titled "Interpretation of Circumstantial Participles" in chapter 52 it describes different ways circumstantial participles can be interpreted e.g. time, circumstance, cause, motivation etc and...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 18th, 2024, 12:50 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·
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Re: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·

Agreed to an extent. The one caveat I would have there is that I may have is that what is an obvious inference to the original speaker and audience may not be to the modern audience and therefore that relationship may need to be brought out in a translation where possible. That definitely doesn’t me...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 17th, 2024, 11:52 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·
Replies: 6
Views: 1708

Re: John 6:58 - οὐ καθὼς ἔφαγον οἱ πατέρες καὶ ἀπέθανον·

Thanks Eeli. I agree with a lot of what you say there about it being a linguistic choice to leave the relationship underspecified. The same sort of thing is found with participles where the relationship between the participle and its context needs to be worked out. For me the difference between the ...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 16th, 2024, 3:19 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: The Comparative Textual Criticism of Religious Scriptures (€129)
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The Comparative Textual Criticism of Religious Scriptures (€129)

Could be interesting, although I would need to see the articles to see for sure 30th May 2024 https://brill.com/display/title/69772?rskey=B7tq9P&result=3 This collection of articles uniquely brings into scholarly dialogue the textual history and criticism of authoritative literatures from divers...
by Matthew Longhorn
January 16th, 2024, 1:48 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Cover - Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (€219)
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Cover - Philo of Alexandria: On the Change of Names Introduction, Translation, and Commentary (€219)

Posting here given people may be interested about this text, and also the section Notes to the Text and Translation dealing with a number of elements on the Greek. https://brill.com/display/title/68979 In the treatise On the Change of Names (part of his magnum opus, the Allegorical Commentary), Phil...

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