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- September 15th, 2025, 2:55 pm
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Translating Biblical insults without losing power
- Replies: 2
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Re: Translating Biblical insults without losing power
Guess this boils down to whether you're going for either the "essentially literal" or "dynamic equivalence" translation philosophy. If we're trying to get across the same sort of impact today, I personally would translate μωρός as either "Moron", or a very apt British s...
- July 15th, 2025, 2:50 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Houghton - A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2025) (32 euros)
- Replies: 2
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Re: Houghton - A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2025) (32 euros)










About time we had an update for the TC on the GNT - been over 3 decades now since Metzger's 2nd edition (1994).
- June 12th, 2025, 1:09 pm
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: ὑπερβυτεροι
- Replies: 5
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Re: ὑπερβυτεροι
Good detective work there, Jean :D Fascinating to see that three of these (1-3) result in the omission of the οι (= υ), and then essentially the replacement of the preposition περι with υπερ (both of which have semantic crossovers). The 4th one just seems to be a pronunciation/spelling error (υ > οι...
- June 5th, 2025, 11:11 am
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: ὑπερβυτεροι
- Replies: 5
- Views: 601918
Re: ὑπερβυτεροι
Thanks for doing some checking on my behalf, Jonathan. As you will well know (so I'm repeating for those that might not), manuscripts post pretty much the 1st century CE start having sound confusions resulting in spelling differences (our beloved itacisms ). The copyist of Min. 127 seems to have bee...
- June 3rd, 2025, 7:27 am
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: ὑπερβυτεροι
- Replies: 5
- Views: 601918
ὑπερβυτεροι
Currently transcribing the Gospel of Mark in one of the numerous GNT minuscule manuscripts (127), and came upon this curious substitution for πρεσβύτεροι in Mark 14:53. Never seen this before, and as there's nothing in LSJ (or any Greek lexicon), nor the vast array of online search engines, I'm gues...
- December 9th, 2024, 4:45 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Matthew 26:17 δὲ not 'on'?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 51644
Re: Matthew 26:17 δὲ not 'on'?
You'll likely find that most English translations haven't bothered to translate the particle δὲ, due to it functioning as a way to connect one clause to another in simple continuation. As per BDAG: δέ (Hom.+) one of the most common Gk. particles, used to connect one clause to another, either to expr...
- July 2nd, 2024, 5:23 pm
- Forum: Books
- Topic: Brill Summer Sale - 50% off
- Replies: 1
- Views: 40447
Brill Summer Sale - 50% off
Just received an email advising Brill/De Gruyter are doing a 50% off sale for the summer (however long that may last). If you want a title from Brill/De Gruyter, this might be your only chance to get it at a much more reasonable price (I've just ordered two titles). https://www2.brill.com/e/319031/s...
- April 1st, 2024, 11:37 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 172750
Re: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
Excellent, Philip - thanks for the links to the images! I'm not sure where the μ at the end of προοδ(οι)πορουντων appears to have come from: current image shows no trace of another letter near the end of the line on page 045. Interestingly it also looks like the nomen sacrum ΚΥ is a correction from ...
- March 30th, 2024, 7:11 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 172750
Re: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
What is the Greek textual basis for 3 Corinthians? Are the earliest manuscripts Armenian? Tell me about BP10 ... Probably best to start here from the ever resourceful Brent Nongbri (who I truly believe should be a private detective): https://brentnongbri.com/2017/09/24/the-bodmer-papyri-an-inventor...
- March 29th, 2024, 2:02 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
- Replies: 21
- Views: 172750
Re: 3 Corinthians, adding accents and punctuation marks
It's προοδοιπορούντων: εἴ τις παραβαίνει ταῦτα τὸ πῦρ ἐστι μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν οὕτως προοδοιπορούντων ἀθέων ἀνθρώπων, οἵτινες γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν εἰσίν, οὓς ἀποτρέπεσθε ἐν τῇ τοῦ κυρίου δυνάμει. καὶ ἔστω μεθ᾽ ὑμῶν εἰρήνη. So that is either a misreading or misspelling in the BP10 with the μ at the end. ...