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- June 7th, 2011, 11:32 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5785
Re: Double Negatives (was John 14:30)
I haven't been participating in this thread but I've followed it with interest. I'd like to make a comment at the end, but also make a couple points here and there, deleting what's not relevant to my comments. I meant "logical inversion" in mathematics or computer science, not that Greek i...
- June 4th, 2011, 7:17 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: John 14:30
- Replies: 24
- Views: 6936
Re: John 14:30
Is the double negative οὐκ ἔχει οὐδέν functionally equivalent to ἔχει οὐδέν? Ancient Greek, like some other languages, tends to use the negating word (οὐ or μὴ) with a second negative adverb or pronoun. This is one of the structural features of ancient Greek usage that one learns when one works sys...
- June 3rd, 2011, 6:33 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: Mt 1:19 AUTHN object or subject
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4199
Re: Mt 1:19 AUTHN objcet or subject
Oun, have you ever worked all the way through a first-year Greek textbook? I ask because your questions have often given me the impression that you are working at understanding NT Greek texts with a parsing guide to tell you the grammatical forms and one or more translations and/or commentaries to h...
- June 3rd, 2011, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Seen on the Web
- Topic: Reading Greek beyond the basics: Saturation style
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4186
Reading Greek beyond the basics: Saturation style
John Hobbins maintains one of the most fascinating and provocative (in the best sense) "Biblioblogs"accessible on the web; it is called "Ancient Hebrew Poetry": http://ancienthebrewpoetry.typepad.com/ancient_hebrew_poetry/ . Although my Hebrew is inadequate to appreciate his anal...
- June 2nd, 2011, 2:36 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Passive Imperative
- Replies: 12
- Views: 21322
Re: Passive Imperative
...However, you said that ALL the passive imperatives are middle. Perhaps my understanding of the middle is too narrow, but there are a few occurrences that still strike me as truly passive. I think that the second-person imperatives with "passive" forms all do involve voluntary submissio...
- June 2nd, 2011, 1:00 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: The dwindling group of proficient ancient Greek readers
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13305
Re: The dwindling group of proficient ancient Greek readers
See Policies: "Policy: B-Greek does require Greek" where it is spelled out what we mean by "a working knowledge of Biblical Greek." I would think it involves being able to read with minimal help from grammars and lexica, without "decoding" texts and analyzing them into ...
- June 2nd, 2011, 7:25 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: ΖΗΤΩ B-GREEK!
- Replies: 2
- Views: 12424
ΖΗΤΩ B-GREEK!
If I may, I'd like to write a few heartfelt words to list-members on my own behalf. I am cautiously optimistic that B-Greek is on the verge of a renaissance. I'd like to think, moreover, that my diminished and altered role in the forum's administration will be one of many factors making such a renai...
- June 1st, 2011, 1:39 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Passive Imperative
- Replies: 12
- Views: 21322
Re: Passive Imperative
I'm looking for some direction on interpreting the Greek passive imperative, particularly in the NT. I have trouble conceiving of it as a true passive, in which Subject1 is acted upon by Subject2. And you are quite right. All these so-called "passive" imperatives are actually MIDDLE imper...
- May 31st, 2011, 9:09 pm
- Forum: Questions
- Topic: McMaster & B-Greek
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5833
Re: McMaster & B-Greek
"Barrius" scripsit:
Si tibi placet, mihi quoque placet.Cum proprio in loco sit Latinam amamus...
N.E. "Barrius" Hofstetter
- May 31st, 2011, 4:44 pm
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: Justin Martyr, 1.1, and translating the aorist participle
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2914
Re: Justin Martyr, 1.1, and translating the aorist participl
Mike Baber: 1 Περιπατοῦντί μοι ἕωθεν ἐν τοῖς τοῦ ξυστοῦ περιπάτοις συναντήσας τις μετὰ καὶ ἄλλων· Φιλόσοφε, χαῖρε, ἔφη. καὶ ἅμα εἰπὼν τοῦτο ἐπιστραφεὶς συμπεριεπάτει μοι· συνεπέστρεφον δ' αὐτῷ καὶ οἱ φίλοι αὐτοῦ. κἀγὼ ἔμπαλιν προσαγορεύσας αὐτόν· Τί μάλιστα; ἔφην. My question involves aorist active ...