Peter Gurry has shared some big news from the Egyptian Exploration Society (the publishers of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri) on the Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog. From the EES press release: In response to recent queries about results of the review initiated in 2016 to identify unpublished New Testament fragments in its collection of Oxyrhynchus papyri (https://www.ees.ac.uk/news/poxy-lxxxiii-5345),... Continue Reading →
Free Copy of Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis
The caveat is that it's a digital copy, but still. I had the pleasure of contributing to a few chapters in Linguistics & Biblical Exegesis (Amazon) in the Lexham Method series. I've highlighted a some of my favorite bits in previous posts here, particularly this one: The historical context of theological lexicons and James Barr.... Continue Reading →
New series on Wittgenstein in March
Can you imagine how much more complicated it could have been for Elmer Fudd to figure out if its rabbit season or duck season?
Perfects, telicity, & the stative modifier test
Telicity tests and syntactic diagnostics are surprisingly relevant for understanding the semantics of the Ancient Greek perfect.
Happy International Septuagint Day
Happy International Septuagint Day everyone!
Revisiting ἰσχύω+infinitive: The literary koine & documentary papyri
Appian is pretty cool. So are the documentary papyri. Let's see how they use ἰσχύω+infinitive compared to the New Testament.
Against monosemy: The complete series
This is the entirety of my series of discussion of Charles Ruhl's (1989) monograph On monosemy.
We're welcoming Old School Script into the fold.
Passing Grammar Notes: Perfects & Persistent Situations
It is sort of taken as a given in grammars that the perfects in these two languages are different, but there is surprisingly little discussion of exactly what that means or how they are different.
