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- April 15th, 2024, 6:59 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: English irregular verbs and Greek stem changes
- Replies: 5
- Views: 303
Re: English irregular verbs and Greek stem changes
The "oddballs" tend to be in the more commonly used words, such as the copulatives. I read once that this occurs because of persistent use, the "old" verbs hang on to the "old" conjugations while the lesser-used verbs tend easier towards simplification ... since languag...
- April 13th, 2024, 8:00 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Parable of the peanut butter sandwich
- Replies: 1
- Views: 151
Re: Parable of the peanut butter sandwich
The Documentary Hypothesis part certainly takes the cake in this article!
- February 19th, 2024, 11:18 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4306
Re: Is there an historical sigma involved in ἱημι ?
Wiktionary is your friend for these etymological inquiries: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%B5%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B9 Basically, there's no historical sigma, but an historical yod, which also evanesces in similar ways. Thanks for this. It makes sense. (Of course, just because it makes sense does n...
- February 13th, 2024, 9:20 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Barthélemy - The Precursors of Aquila
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2243
Re: Barthélemy - The Precursors of Aquila
It doesn't bother me. I just ignore the posts for books that are not in my current interest.
- February 12th, 2024, 9:52 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Barthélemy - The Precursors of Aquila
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2243
Re: Barthélemy - The Precursors of Aquila
Thanks for the notice on this one.
- January 30th, 2024, 11:25 am
- Forum: Greek Texts
- Topic: Stromata 2.15.70.3-4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 974
Re: Stromata 2.15.70.3-4
Thank you for the reply. I need to think about this more; probably in the broader context as you mentioned. Yes, the end result is supposed to be a reconciliation, prompted by the "kindness" of a pardon that is extended before it is "deserved." I do get that point; but the langua...
- January 26th, 2024, 7:49 pm
- Forum: Greek Texts
- Topic: Stromata 2.15.70.3-4
- Replies: 2
- Views: 974
Stromata 2.15.70.3-4
I am not successfully wrapping my brain around this text in the Stromata. The ANF translation doesn't help, but I ran it through ChatGPT and its translation at least makes some sense. I am trying to understand the sentence about "forgiveness is not constituted as pardon, but rather as a healing...
- January 24th, 2024, 10:09 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: Prepositions and verbs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 979
Prepositions and verbs
Yesterday I read this article (https://www.academia.edu/52642782/What_does_%E1%BC%90%CF%80%CE%AF_really_mean_Contact_and_dimensionality_of_the_landmark_as_basic_semantic_categories_in_the_locative_prepositional_phrases_with_%E1%BC%90%CF%80%CE%AF?email_work_card=thumbnail) and found it to be helpful....
- December 14th, 2023, 8:16 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Feedback on criteria for posting books here
- Replies: 23
- Views: 75757
- December 11th, 2023, 10:31 am
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Heater - A Septuagint Translation Technique in the Book of Job (£21.00)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 13041