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- July 28th, 2015, 2:00 am
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: ερχομαι επι for sexual activity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2468
Re: ερχομαι επι for sexual activity
Thanks, Ken, that's very helpful. 2. What was the reviser intending? He didn't really care how it was understood. He was simply trying to achieve lexical consistency by using the most basic Greek equivalent for each Hebrew word. בא = ἦλθεν and אל = ἐπὶ . I suppose that has to be the explanation. If ...
- July 26th, 2015, 9:13 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: ερχομαι επι for sexual activity
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2468
ερχομαι επι for sexual activity
I'm puzzled by a turn of phrase in the Antiochene text of 2 Regn. 17:25: ὁ δὲ Ἀμεσσὰ ἦν υἱὸς Ιἕθερ τοῦ Ἰεζραηλίτου· ὃς ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀβιγαίαν θυγατέρα Ἱεσσαὶ The expected wording would be εισερχομαι προς--which is what one finds here in the "standard" Septuagint. Where the subject is a man...
- May 17th, 2014, 5:40 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Searching for a Greek Text on Greek Suffixes and Word Forms
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2761
Re: Searching for a Greek Text on Greek Suffixes and Word Fo
The most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment of Greek suffixes etc. known to me is in vol. 1 of Eduard Schwyzer's Griechische Grammatik (Munich: C. H. Beck); I have the 6th edition, 1990, though I don't know whether that's the most recent edition. You might possibly have come across that on the...
- April 1st, 2014, 10:39 pm
- Forum: Other Greek Texts
- Topic: Interacting with a text without verse numbers marked
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2939
Re: Interacting with a text without verse numbers marked
Another advantage of un-verse-numbered text is that it exercises your knowledge of the text itself. When you look for a passage in a verse-numbered text, your search is often guided mainly (or even entirely) by the numbers. But when you look in an unnumbered text, you have to recognize where you are...
- November 9th, 2013, 3:27 am
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Are these Hebraisms?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1738
Re: Are these Hebraisms?
The second example would indeed be usually considered a Semiticism--in fact doubly so: (1) The use of a genitive of quality (δόξης) instead of an adjective is Semitic, as noted by BDF §165 ("Classical Greek exhibits very sparse parallels, in poetry only"); and (2) "this Semitic manner...
- October 23rd, 2013, 11:38 pm
- Forum: biblicalhumanities.org
- Topic: Advice Needed: Septuagint Resources
- Replies: 21
- Views: 41587
Re: Advice Needed: Septuagint Resources
A very useful resource. Here’s exactly the same list reshuffled into subcategories, but without any other alterations (and without removing any of the duplications): 1. EDITIONS: 1.1 MS TRANSCRIPTIONS AND PHOTOFACSIMILES Lake, Kirsopp. Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus et Friderico-Augustanus Lipsiens...
- October 21st, 2013, 5:00 pm
- Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
- Topic: Aligned texts for the LXX
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2408
Re: Aligned texts for the LXX
I suppose I'm looking for formal equivalence without being too 'translation Greek', I'm looking for LXX books that are more or less like the ESV. My personal feeling is that much of the LXX (e.g. large swathes of the Torah and the history books) would broadly fit that description. In most sentences...
- October 21st, 2013, 4:47 am
- Forum: biblicalhumanities.org
- Topic: Advice Needed: New Testament Commentaries
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15189
Re: Advice Needed: New Testament Commentaries
Purely as a discussion point, might I attempt an integrated and prioritized synopsis of the above? I assume that most users would prefer (a) more thorough works and (b) works that are more representative of the scholarship of the period. On that basis, I’d suggest starting with the work marked 1, th...
- October 21st, 2013, 3:00 am
- Forum: biblicalhumanities.org
- Topic: Advice Needed: New Testament Commentaries
- Replies: 8
- Views: 15189
Re: Advice Needed: New Testament Commentaries
What other single-book commentaries should we consider? Then there are the various commentaries of Lightfoot and Westcott, although it might be argued that they’re not quite such a high priority because their material has been recycled so often. (Everyone who writes nowadays on the same books takes...
- October 21st, 2013, 2:27 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Nestle 1904 (BFBS) in Unicode
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3338
Re: Nestle 1904 (BFBS) in Unicode
Every time I see one of those webpages, I am sorely tempted to add a post asserting that the works of Tischendorf were actually written by Francis Bacon, revealing in code that Elvis Presley is alive and well and the victim of a hideous conspiracy. The only thing that holds me back is the sure and c...