He says: But as the influence of language study (and seminary) wanes, and the number of Greek textbooks […]
Category Archive: Linguistics
I don’t know if I’ve ever done one of these posts, but I’ve just received a couple books […]
I’m totally ripping this off directly from the B-Greek list, but its definitely worth it if I can […]
This is a continuation of my series examining Devine and Stephen’s book Discontinuous Syntax: Hyperbaton in Greek. Today’s […]
Sometimes the glosses provided in lexicons are just silly. And this isn’t a criticism of just LEH. All […]
In 2 Samuel 17:28, we find an interesting list of nouns that cannot translate directly into English: 28 […]
The preeminent example: LSJ: παραζώνη, ἡ, girdle, Lxx2Ki.18.11. LEH: παραζώνη,-ης N1F 0–1–0–0–0=1 2 Sm 18,11 belt; neol. GELS: […]
Reading Moulton’s Prolegomena is always interesting. He was definitely a descriptive linguist and regularly comments on how English […]
Wayne Leman at the Better Bibles Blog has a great post about common language in translation that’s worth […]
There is only one clause in the Greek New Testament with a double WH-word construction: Mark 15:24 καὶ […]
