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by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
July 15th, 2025, 2:50 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Houghton - A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2025) (32 euros)
Replies: 2
Views: 27079

Re: Houghton - A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2025) (32 euros)

:o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

About time we had an update for the TC on the GNT - been over 3 decades now since Metzger's 2nd edition (1994).
by S Walch
June 12th, 2025, 1:09 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: ὑπερβυτεροι
Replies: 5
Views: 601918

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...
by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
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 ...
by S Walch
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...
by S Walch
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. ...

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