Nearly all major English translations in Acts 9:36 completely fail to communicate what the author of Acts is trying to do here: tell his readers that the name ‘Tabitha’ is a Aramaic word (טַבְיְתָא) that means ‘gazelle’. Luke’s audiences doesn’t want to know that two names correspond in an unknown way. Luke’s audience wants to know the meaning of Tabitha…
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Editor’s note: I was asked to comment on Greek word order in a Facebook thread and the following […]
But there’s a far simpler explanation of the data that does not need Porter’s overwrought prominence model.
Compounds are complicated. They are formally complex, involving wide variation in their morphological/lexical formation. These formal complexities introduce their own series of semantic challenges.
Two quote from Rulh (1989) On monosemy…
Take the time to learn Greek accents. Please. Just at a basic level of grammar, the nature of […]
Dahl (1985, 138; 2000, 9-10) describes to a hierarchy of usage for perfects across languages. The hierarchy lays out […]
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