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- March 1st, 2025, 5:46 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Tributes to Carl Conrad
- Replies: 17
- Views: 58561
Re: Tributes to Carl Conrad
I first encountered Carl when I joined the B-Greek email list (as it was then) as a young seminary student in 1997. A short while later I came across a reference to Carl's unpublished Harvard PhD dissertation from 1964, which seemed like a long time ago, though it is now almost as long since I joine...
- October 15th, 2015, 12:03 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Morphology of οἶδα
- Replies: 4
- Views: 42646
Morphology of οἶδα
Why does the stem of οἶδα change from οιδ in the perfect indicative to ειδ in the perfect subjunctive?
- September 24th, 2015, 1:08 am
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Re: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
There has indeed been a tendency to treat these principles as rules, but they simply don't work. Perhaps I should add that this is all pretty new to me. As I try the theory on for size, I find it helps to treat the principles as rules. Otherwise, I am liable to continue reading as I always have. Ac...
- September 23rd, 2015, 11:43 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Re: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
I suppose we should analyze each different kind of “marker” in a text, label it with appropriate linguistic terms, and show how it bears on the text. But this sort of analysis is too much for my brain to process. Too many details. Instead, I would add up the verbal aspect choices, the conjunctions,...
- September 22nd, 2015, 12:24 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Re: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
The historical present ἐκβάλλει εἰς τὴν ἔρημον seems consistent with Jesus' testing in the wilderness as an event of at least equal importance with his baptism and his arrival in Galilee. The historical present highlights the Spirit's propulsion of Jesus into the wilderness as an event of importanc...
- September 18th, 2015, 6:41 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Re: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
Asking students to do things like telling a story using past imperfectives, or trying to do most *anything* with simple presents, illustrates how certain forms really lend themselves to certain discourse functions over others. There has indeed been a tendency to treat these principles as rules, but...
- September 18th, 2015, 4:15 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Re: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
I appreciate the push back on wording from Stirling and Steven, although it still seems to me that 'signaling' (drawn from p. 130 in Steven's Discourse Grammar ) can serve as shorthand for the way in which "the nature of imperfective aspect and the requirements of narrative" combine "...
- September 17th, 2015, 12:23 pm
- Forum: Pragmatics and Discourse
- Topic: Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
- Replies: 20
- Views: 21893
Mainline, Background and Historical Present in Mark 1
I am trying to make sense of Mark 1:12-13 in light of the discussions of foreground, background and historical present in Runge, Levinsohn, etc.: 12 Καὶ εὐθὺς τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτὸν ἐκβάλλει εἰς τὴν ἔρημον. 13 καὶ ἦν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τεσσεράκοντα ἡμέρας πειραζόμενος ὑπὸ τοῦ σατανᾶ, καὶ ἦν μετὰ τῶν θηρίων, καὶ ο...
- December 26th, 2013, 7:00 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Paul Nitz: Communicative Greek in Malawi
- Replies: 23
- Views: 101368
Re: Paul Nitz: Communicative Greek in Malawi
χαῖρε Παῦλε!
I am curious about how much GNT reading your students do. Can you comment on how your current students' reading facility compares to students that you taught before you started using a communicative approach?
David
I am curious about how much GNT reading your students do. Can you comment on how your current students' reading facility compares to students that you taught before you started using a communicative approach?
David
- December 25th, 2013, 9:24 pm
- Forum: Software
- Topic: HermeneutiX: a software tool for semantic structure analysis
- Replies: 18
- Views: 17042
Re: HermeneutiX: a software tool for semantic structure anal
Thanks Michael. Could you point me to the German material as well?mickz wrote: so far I have only German material available. But I'm working on getting the rights to use some of the English materials I have.
David