Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics…
Porter, Stanley. 2015. Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. This review is a long time coming. I owe it to my readers for their generosity in helping my wife and I get to Cambridge for the Greek Verb Conference (The Greek Verb Revisited) in 2015. It's also a long... Continue Reading →
Porter, Stanley. 2015. Linguistic analysis of the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic. This review is a long time coming. I owe it to my readers for their generosity in helping my wife and I get to Cambridge for the Greek Verb Conference (The Greek Verb Revisited) in 2015. Part II of this... Continue Reading →
I got my hands on this little guy last week: Dirk Geeraerts' Diachronic Prototype Semantics: A Contribution to Historical Lexicography. It's an older volume--1997, but really insightful. Geeraerts knows the field of semantics and lexicology and its history with a depth and degree of thoughtfulness that the vast majority of us can only aspire to... Continue Reading →
James Clackson, the classisist/historical linguist, recently published on book on sociolinguistics in Ancient Greek & Rome: Language and Society in the Greek and Roman Worlds. I'm a little surprised that I hadn't seen is before. I try to stay up on these things. Publishers blurb: Texts written in Latin, Greek and other languages provide ancient... Continue Reading →
James W. Voelz has a review of Robert Funk's Greek Grammar on the Review of Biblical Literature, that's available here: A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek. For those of you who aren't aware, Funk's grammar, sadly written in the 1970's went out of print years ago. The people of B-Greek put a significant amount of effort... Continue Reading →
I just found out that two important reference works on Ancient Greek been available in paperback since January 2014. Geoffrey Horrocks’ Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers Egbert Bakker's A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language Obviously, they're going to be cheaply bound paperbacks, but it's still a much better price and... Continue Reading →
Just to recap on this series, since I’ve been so busy with so many other things and so lazy about my blog, you may want to get a refresher at what we're discussing in the introductory post here: Linguistic adequacy and Greek grammars and here: Linguistic adequacy and BDF. I really need to finish this... Continue Reading →
Despite the production of other New Testament grammars, Winer’s work continued to hold the greatest influence throughout the century and by 1882, it was in its ninth English edition.[1] William Moulton’s contributions to the grammar grew consistently with each of his own editions/translations, though the basic organization continues to be the same. Most importantly, by... Continue Reading →
The translation of Raphael Kühner’s German grammar into English by William Jelf marks the closest we get to a comprehensive grammar of Classical and Hellenistic Greek.[1] And while it does not provide a distinct discussion of New Testament Greek by itself, it does provide references to New Testament usage as it relates to broader usage.... Continue Reading →
