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- March 24th, 2023, 9:34 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: SBLGNT is now Creative Commons
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2025
Re: SBLGNT is now Creative Commons
Our previous discussion about licensing issues is here: https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4515 This is great news. I think few can even understand how big leap this can be for the whole field of modern textual criticism, publishing, computer aided research etc. But time wi...
- March 7th, 2023, 11:39 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2182
Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
Ellipsis, i.e. leaving out some syntactically needed word(s) to form a complete sentence, is pretty common in Koine. Here it's easily explained because the exact word isn't important and the thought of the blank can be found in vicinity. Most naturally it's some of those what you already suggested. ...
- March 7th, 2023, 5:48 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2182
Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
If you are unsure about the syntax, you can try https://syntacticus.org/sentence/proiel:20180408:greek-nt:21874 (you can't jump to a verse here, you have to search for a Greek word) or https://ibiblio.org/bgreek/resources/syntax-trees/reader/ or http://opentext.org/texts/NT/John/view/combined-cl-ch1...
- January 20th, 2023, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Mathewson and Porter - Voice and Mood: A Linguistic Approach
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7544
Re: Mathewson and Porter - Voice and Mood: A Linguistic Approach
I have access only to the publisher's preview. Mathewson says: Allan also appears to suggest that the active voice can be “laid aside” in contexts that indicate subject-affectedness, so that the meaning of the active voice is neutralized in some contexts and with some verbs. 32 This creates ambiguit...
- January 17th, 2023, 4:53 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Land - Syntax (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar): How Sentences Make Meaning
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1102
Re: Land - Syntax (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar): How Sentences Make Meaning
That's interesting. Voice and Mood by Mathewson seems to cover Rachel Aubrey's article, too. I would be interested in hearing Aubreys' opinion. Personally I'm suspicious whenever I see "SFL" applied to Koine. It has spread to our area of interest through Porter who tries to make a watertig...
- October 21st, 2022, 2:54 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12949
Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
I read the original post and saw nothing objectionable in what was being proposed. I read it again to see if I missed something. I waited and read it 14hrs later. I still see nothing objectionable. The second temporal sphere is implied not expressed. It could be NOW or at any time in the future. Wh...
- October 20th, 2022, 11:38 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12949
Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
The whole sentence (which you should have quoted in full) is οὐ γὰρ ἔχομεν ἀρχιερέα μὴ δυνάμενον συμπαθῆσαι ταῖς ἀσθενείαις ἡμῶν, πεπειρασμένον δὲ κατὰ πάντα καθ’ ὁμοιότητα χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας. There's only one present participle here, δυνάμενον, and in no way it gives any temporal reference for the test...
- October 19th, 2022, 5:34 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12949
Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
Why? Why do you think there's a temporal reference?
- October 19th, 2022, 1:32 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12949
- August 31st, 2022, 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
- Topic: Verb aspect debate outside of Koine
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6936
Re: Verb aspect debate outside of Koine
Runge's article Contrastive Substitution and the Greek Verb might also be good reading. Steven sometimes writes here, too.