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by Hefin J. Jones
January 19th, 2014, 1:08 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Mark Armstrong
Replies: 3
Views: 1342

Re: Mark Armstrong

Hi Mark

Welcome to B-greek! I used to be on years ago. Have been off for a while and recently come back on board, though not very active.

Hefin
by Hefin J. Jones
November 13th, 2013, 8:45 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Patrick Maxwell
Replies: 2
Views: 1710

Re: Patrick Maxwell

Patrick Maxwell wrote:Hi everyone, my name is Patrick Maxwell (I am an old retired fellow in South Africa). My wife and I have been learning koine Greek in a small class given by someone at the local Baptist church.
I must have hung around the 'wrong' Baptists when I lived there in '91-'94. ;-)

Welcome!
by Hefin J. Jones
November 13th, 2013, 8:41 am
Forum: Grammars
Topic: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
Replies: 32
Views: 51432

Re: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic G

(real Syntax as opposed to what often passes under that name in biblical Greek circles What is real syntax? Clue me in. Much of what was called syntax in many older and even some current koinē studies is really semantics and pragmatics garbled. Syntax proper is the study of the structure of phrases...
by Hefin J. Jones
October 15th, 2013, 11:31 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Thomas Farrar
Replies: 1
Views: 1048

Re: Thomas Farrar

Welcome! Cape Town is an amazing corner of the world. I have fond memories from a couple of visits, including the wineries. Good friends of mine minister in Ct itself and Somerset West.

Hefin Jones
Sydney
by Hefin J. Jones
August 11th, 2013, 1:29 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Romans 15:13 & 33
Replies: 9
Views: 2053

Re: Romans 15:13 & 33

Well caught Stephen. I call her Deirdre SMITH all the time! That example was especially bad since I gave her surname correctly when referring to the book. Must tell us something about the organisation of our encyclopaedic entries. On reflection I suspect that I'm conflating her name with Neil Smith'...
by Hefin J. Jones
August 10th, 2013, 2:22 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Romans 15:13 & 33
Replies: 9
Views: 2053

Re: Romans 15:13 & 33

Deidre Smith (of Serper and Wilson "Relevance Theory" fame) invoked Wittgenstein at this point and claimed that there were pretty much an infinity of ways one could cut a cake, and that therefore there were an infinte number of possible classification schemes for the relationship between t...
by Hefin J. Jones
August 5th, 2013, 11:19 pm
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Is it ever too early to parse?
Replies: 5
Views: 3272

Re: Is it ever too early to parse?

I started learning greek mainly through learning of vocab and paradigms/rules. It only gets you so far. The next time around I got much much much further by translating paragraph sized sections of text weekly. Parsing was not a priority. I think the folk who advocate extensive reading are wise - the...
by Hefin J. Jones
July 29th, 2013, 2:37 am
Forum: Vocabulary
Topic: NT Greek word search or crossword puzzles?
Replies: 4
Views: 4186

Re: NT Greek word search or crossword puzzles?

A friend of mine once devised a koine version of 'scrabble' for his own amusement - but I don't think it would be available for anyone else. The well-known game is trademarked etc... he simply added his own greek tiles with scoring worked out on letters by frequency in the vocal lists he had for the...
by Hefin J. Jones
July 20th, 2013, 4:43 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hefin J. Jones
Replies: 4
Views: 3288

Re: Hefin J. Jones

... And Doug Campbell and Doug Harink.

Welcome aboard (even if its from a fellow newbie)!
by Hefin J. Jones
July 19th, 2013, 8:57 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Why is this article causing me troubles
Replies: 20
Views: 4036

Re: Why is this article causing me troubles

Thanks Mike for the Bakker title - I couldn't help feel a certain sense of irony when I noticed (1) Her title, subtitle and (2) the series title; a feeling somewhat compounded by your comments soon after about phrases.

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