Primary and secondary grammar classes teach that a transitive clause is a clause with an object: Rachel shattered […]
Category Archive: Language
The other Koine Greek website, KoineGreek.com (we have a dash, they don’t), run by Benjamin Kantor has announced a beginning of an impressive film with the LUMO Project and Faith Comes by Hearing created with the text of the Gospel of Mark created entirely using reconstructed Koine Greek phonology. Chapter 1 of Mark is available on YouTube now:
“Verbal Aspect Theory” and its companion “Aktionsart Theory” are both phrases that need to be reconsidered. The way it gets used by NT grammarians is anachronistic and leads to misreadings of the grammatical literature.
The second in my series of blog posts comparing Liddell, Scott, Jones, & Mckenzie’s Greek-English Lexicon with Brill’s […]
English has constructions that sort of look like Greek middle voice. The door closed (Greek: ἐκλείσθη ἡ θύρα)Rachel […]
My audience didn’t do a particularly good job participating in the beginning quiz. Next time I’ll need to find some additional incentives.
A few months ago, I was asked to write a blog post about The Brill Dictionary of Ancient […]
My copy of the Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek arrived in the mail last week. Since then I […]
David A. Black announced on his blog on the entry for Saturday, May 11th that the video presentations […]
William Ross has announced the forming of a new research group at the Institute for Biblical Research, spear […]
