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by R. Perkins
September 17th, 2015, 11:12 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?
Replies: 22
Views: 7886

Re: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?

Thank you Shirley, Stephen, etc. One final question before signing off this thread (don't mean to belabor the point): Some one who has had very little Greek training recently stated (& I quote): "Greek, as with many languages, uses masculine nouns to refer to classes or groups of people tha...
by R. Perkins
September 17th, 2015, 4:15 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?
Replies: 22
Views: 7886

Re: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?

Interestingly, the adjective ἐπίσημος in Rom. 16.7 is nominative-masculine-plural (which, of course , is apparent). Slow down for a moment. To make sense of things, some conclusions do need to drawn from the evidence at hand, but it is better to shuffle to them, rather than jump. Appearances are no...
by R. Perkins
September 15th, 2015, 5:54 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?
Replies: 22
Views: 7886

Re: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?

Well, I finally passed Greek I with an overall grade of 95%. And, it's been several weeks since I've looked at the text books so I'm finding out really fast that "if you don't use it, you lose it :oops: ." Question (I hope this is the place to ask this?): While discussing "aner"...
by R. Perkins
September 15th, 2015, 5:36 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?
Replies: 22
Views: 7886

Re: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?

I think that within the logic of the grammar, your question ultimately rests on the interpretation of the word ἐπίσημος and understanding its idiomatic usages. They are either (A) two of the apostles who in the view of others stand out among the apostles for being Paul's relatives and his fellow pr...
by R. Perkins
September 14th, 2015, 10:35 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?
Replies: 22
Views: 7886

Romans 16.7 - "Natural Gender" and "Arbitrary Gender"?

Well, I finally passed Greek I with an overall grade of 95%. And, it's been several weeks since I've looked at the text books so I'm finding out really fast that "if you don't use it, you lose it :oops: ." Question (I hope this is the place to ask this?): While discussing "aner" ...
by R. Perkins
August 1st, 2015, 4:14 am
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?
Replies: 30
Views: 41414

Re: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?

Thank you for the responses. Just finished 2 Aorists - which, at times seem to just go off completely on their own. This is something that is *EXTREMELY* frustrating to me: You can learn the paradigmatic charts & then many times the words (e.g., Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns) do not follow the rules...
by R. Perkins
July 31st, 2015, 5:13 am
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?
Replies: 30
Views: 41414

Re: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?

Thank you for the responses. Just finished 2 Aorists - which, at times seem to just go off completely on their own. This is something that is *EXTREMELY* frustrating to me: You can learn the paradigmatic charts & then many times the words (e.g., Verbs, Adjectives, Nouns) do not follow the rules ...
by R. Perkins
July 28th, 2015, 3:01 am
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?
Replies: 30
Views: 41414

Re: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?

I am presently taking classes on-line from Dr. Maury Robertson's "Greek for Everyone." Just started my 2nd semester - have worked my way up to verbal tense-formatives. Good grief - and I thought the noun declensions were rough (actually, believe it or not I had the most trouble with the 3-...
by R. Perkins
June 5th, 2015, 1:39 am
Forum: Septuagint and Pseudepigrapha
Topic: Best online Septuagint?
Replies: 30
Views: 52203

Re: Best online Septuagint?

This may seem like an ignorant question, but when I look up a passage in this LXX it doesn't seem to match the chapter-verse(s) of other translations or even the BHS (which I also recently purchased with morphological tagging). Right - the numbering of Psalms in the Septuagint differs from the numb...
by R. Perkins
June 5th, 2015, 1:28 am
Forum: Learning Paradigms
Topic: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?
Replies: 30
Views: 41414

Re: Beginners: how are you learning? how is it going?

I realize this thread is quite old, but wanted to inquire a bit into this subject. Several years ago I was reading a heavily exegetical work edited by Kostenberger & Schreiner. The authors kept using syntactical references (I didn't even really know what syntax was at the time :oops: ) to the in...

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