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- October 23rd, 2020, 11:35 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Meta Language
- Replies: 23
- Views: 11294
Re: Meta Language
May I suggest using Greek metalanguage? It might help keeping people in the language, should that be a goal, and probably forces more flexibility because students are learning the metalanguage across a language divide rather than subliminally thinking that it is some kind of bedrock. [I see this thi...
- October 5th, 2020, 2:26 am
- Forum: Other Greek Texts
- Topic: Reading a handwritten sentence
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5263
Re: Reading a handwritten sentence
ΗΝ ΔΕ ΕΓΓΥΣ ΤΟ ΠΑΣΧΑ Η ΕΟΡΤΗ ΤΩΝ ΙΟΥΔΑΙΩΝ
- October 4th, 2020, 4:41 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Answer Key to Machen
- Replies: 16
- Views: 26039
Re: Answer Key to Machen
. . . My oldest son took a year of Classical Greek in one semester at Yale, with the final exam on Plato’s Apology. After forty years of teaching ancient history and classics he has piblished translations of Xenophons Hellenika and two volumes of Polyaenos’ Strategemats. I agree that Athenaze is an...
- August 6th, 2020, 2:41 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Matthew 27:46 hina clause not in subjunctive mood
- Replies: 4
- Views: 859
Re: Matthew 27:46 hina clause not in subjunctive mood
ἵνα τί με ἐγκατέλιπες Why is this hina clause not in subjunctive mood? The ἵνα clause has no verb. It's just ἵνα τί. You could think of it as "You abandoned me in order to what ?" if it helps you to English it differently. Exactly. Consider the 'subjunctive' to be inside the τί, as if to ...
- June 22nd, 2020, 9:59 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Albuquerque on Mark 2:10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7354
Re: Albuquerque on Mark 2:10
For Matthew: the verb ἀφιέναι does not need or require extra phrases that specifies time or place or other marginal/optional information. Also, everything was already taking place "on earth," both the incident and the speech. Relevance Theory states that persons interpret explicit statemen...
- June 20th, 2020, 3:51 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Albuquerque on Mark 2:10
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7354
Re: Albuquerque on Mark 2:10
Actually, this is not a simple read for those in the 21st century. There are several of points of background information and word order that are necessary for a good reading. First of all, ἐξουσίαν ἔχει is an idiomatic word order for the verb σχεῖν. This is practically equivalent to a verb-first cla...
- June 6th, 2020, 11:13 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21406
Re: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
The quote (οδε κιτε "here lies") does, in fact, demonstrate merged/dropped length. First, ε is short while the etymological vowel αι was long. This cannot be attributed to pre-Euclidian spelling from 500-700 years (!) earlier because E was used for long-E ("proto-eta") not AI. S...
- May 31st, 2020, 10:15 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Expressing a perfect continuous idea
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4262
Re: Expressing a perfect continuous idea
We tend to use πειρᾶσθαι πειραθῆναι for the 'attempt' notion, and προσφάτως is good for 'recently.' However, the tenses are easier in Greek because the choice of πειρᾶσθαι is also conditioned by its hinted outcome. If the attempt was unsuccessful or on going then an imperfect or a continuous partici...
- May 27th, 2020, 3:33 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21406
Re: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
FTR: Koine pronunciation recommends unaspirated π, τ, κ, and fricative φ, θ, χ, as well as voiced fricative β, δ, γ. PS: If you use them for a few hundred hours you will begin to hear them. The result is not always pleasant. In Hebrew it bothers me sometimes to hear חית pronounced as a fricative כית...
- May 24th, 2020, 5:15 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
- Replies: 25
- Views: 21406
Re: The 'Lucian Pronunciation' of Koine Greek
Rather, our goal is to prescribe a standard which is not necessarily a-historical, but also achieves other pedagogical goals I assume that you have read the discussion on goals and criteria for pronunciation choice in the PDF at www.biblicallanguagecenter.com ? https://www.biblicallanguagecenter.co...