SBLThe Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature is coming soon (November 17-20), and the online program book is up and there’s a PDF of the Sessions available as well. I’m trying to gather together the papers related dealing with Greek language questions. Here’s what I’ve collected together, I might have missed a few. Let me know if you have found something I didn’t see.
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How can there be any substantive discussion about language data or linguistic method if we cannot even agree on the history of research? New Testament Greek grammar is simply broken. And nobody seems interested in trying to fix it. So where do we go from here?
Pro-tips for surviving without alcohol in a barren land from Cyrus the Great.
Will Ross and Greg Lanier took some time to answer some questions with Hendrickson Publishers about all the work they put into their Reader’s Edition LXX.
LXX Q&A with Will Ross and Greg Lanier
It’s a really excellent Q&A with them and worth taking a few moments to read.
And aren’t we all just slightly scared by that one time we read through 2 Maccabees? Yeah. Been there.
This second post on predicate types and narrative structure applies the discussion from the previous post to English and then Greek examples
When we talk about the concepts of background and foreground, it needs to be emphasized that we are […]
Tense and aspect are central for narrative text. The perfective and imperfective aspect, particularly, are essential for how an author builds a narrative structure and signals to the reader the flow of the story.
Here are 5 forthcoming books related to the study of language and Ancient Greek that I’m looking forward to and perhaps you should be aware of, if you’re interested in Ancient Greek grammar.
I have collected together the links four posts in this little series on σκύβαλον for easier reference.
Herein, we come to the end of our discussion of the semantics of σκύβαλον and how it relates to English taboo words.
Koine-Greek 