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by RandallButh
June 14th, 2022, 8:40 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
Replies: 7
Views: 3097

Re: Examples of syntactic ambiguity

Since it's still on the discussion table: a. the semantics of προσ εύχεσθαι have always struck me strange if it were being construed with προς εαυτον. Would one of the Prushim pray to himself? Or was Jesus additionally negating the example by saying that God didn't hear the prayer, only the man hims...
by RandallButh
June 9th, 2022, 2:28 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Examples of syntactic ambiguity
Replies: 7
Views: 3097

Re: Examples of syntactic ambiguity

You probably need to add the famous Rom 5:1 ἔχομεν or ἔχωμεν because that was one phonological word in the 1st century when read outloud to the congregations. Only those with some Greek schooling would distinguish potential written texts at Rm5.1. Ultimately even scribes could not be trusted absolut...
by RandallButh
June 4th, 2022, 1:19 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Lexical classification resource
Replies: 11
Views: 6482

Re: Lexical classification resource

I sympathize, Jonathan. The issue of the wider 1st-2nd CE language only needs to be articulated because of the tendency for people to look for the coin under the streetlight. And then people become complacent because "they already have adequate tools." Fortunately, most of our sources are ...
by RandallButh
June 3rd, 2022, 2:02 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Lexical classification resource
Replies: 11
Views: 6482

Re: Lexical classification resource

There is a methodological problem with using only NT data as a base: it does not represent a full cross-section of normal, common language use in the society. For example, a "NT" dictionary will list "yellow" as θειώδης, but a little kid would say ξανθός. That skewing is not addr...
by RandallButh
June 3rd, 2022, 11:26 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Lexical classification resource
Replies: 11
Views: 6482

Re: Lexical classification resource

Yes, you can use that, but you must filter the information so that you don't take some poetic or epic word and assume that it was in the vocabulary of a first century farmer in Derbe. Always check to see if, how, and where the word is used in Josephus, LXX, Epictetus, Plutarch, Apostolic Fathers, ev...
by RandallButh
June 2nd, 2022, 9:58 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Lexical classification resource
Replies: 11
Views: 6482

Re: Lexical classification resource

Actually, the resource does not even need to be a semantic-domain dictionary. A simple English to Greek with regularly attested vocab and examples from 200BCEto200CE would be very useful. 1st century Greek-Greek or Eng-Greek would be a doorway to begin to appreciate the semantic grid within the audi...
by RandallButh
May 28th, 2022, 10:58 am
Forum: Resources
Topic: Greek Resources for the Blind
Replies: 10
Views: 13719

Re: Greek Resources for the Blind

For Greek, I would approach Apple Greece.
On Hebrew, Israel has a Blind Institute. And Apple Israel should have something in Hebrew.
by RandallButh
April 10th, 2022, 3:58 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Hebrew?
Replies: 7
Views: 3438

Re: Hebrew?

JasonHare wrote In §3.3.3.2, Cook describes it as a form of qāṭal that is used for irrealis mood (specifically, the optative in secondary conditionals [with לוּ and לוּלֵא]), which happens also without the vav prefix. But that is exactly the point. In veqatal in Biblical Hebrew the qatal is not a p...
by RandallButh
April 9th, 2022, 12:41 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: Hebrew?
Replies: 7
Views: 3438

Re: Hebrew?

People should be aware that there are sometimes different "Hebrew"s being taught. For example, for about 3000 years the Hebrew yiqtol and weqatal have been treated as encoding the same tense-mood-aspect in different, complementary contexts. One of the grammars above (Cook-Holmstedt) does n...
by RandallButh
March 8th, 2022, 4:53 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
Replies: 9
Views: 6431

Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο

This example and discussion may illustrate the pitfalls of discussing one language in terms of translation into another language. English and Greek are structured differently. English does not have a good imperfective past tense, certainly not as flexible as Greek. Likewise, Greek has a structural a...

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