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by Eeli Kaikkonen
March 24th, 2023, 9:34 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: SBLGNT is now Creative Commons
Replies: 1
Views: 1603

Re: SBLGNT is now Creative Commons

Our previous discussion about licensing issues is here: https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4515 This is great news. I think few can even understand how big leap this can be for the whole field of modern textual criticism, publishing, computer aided research etc. But time wi...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
March 7th, 2023, 11:39 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
Replies: 5
Views: 1799

Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.

Ellipsis, i.e. leaving out some syntactically needed word(s) to form a complete sentence, is pretty common in Koine. Here it's easily explained because the exact word isn't important and the thought of the blank can be found in vicinity. Most naturally it's some of those what you already suggested. ...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
March 7th, 2023, 5:48 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.
Replies: 5
Views: 1799

Re: John 1.8 - distinguishing subjects and complements, and borrowing verbs from earlier sentences.

If you are unsure about the syntax, you can try https://syntacticus.org/sentence/proiel:20180408:greek-nt:21874 (you can't jump to a verse here, you have to search for a Greek word) or https://ibiblio.org/bgreek/resources/syntax-trees/reader/ or http://opentext.org/texts/NT/John/view/combined-cl-ch1...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 20th, 2023, 2:48 pm
Forum: Books
Topic: Mathewson and Porter - Voice and Mood: A Linguistic Approach
Replies: 12
Views: 7287

Re: Mathewson and Porter - Voice and Mood: A Linguistic Approach

I have access only to the publisher's preview. Mathewson says: Allan also appears to suggest that the active voice can be “laid aside” in contexts that indicate subject-affectedness, so that the meaning of the active voice is neutralized in some contexts and with some verbs. 32 This creates ambiguit...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 17th, 2023, 4:53 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Land - Syntax (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar): How Sentences Make Meaning
Replies: 5
Views: 1075

Re: Land - Syntax (Essentials of Biblical Greek Grammar): How Sentences Make Meaning

That's interesting. Voice and Mood by Mathewson seems to cover Rachel Aubrey's article, too. I would be interested in hearing Aubreys' opinion. Personally I'm suspicious whenever I see "SFL" applied to Koine. It has spread to our area of interest through Porter who tries to make a watertig...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
October 21st, 2022, 2:54 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
Replies: 12
Views: 12160

Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15

I read the original post and saw nothing objectionable in what was being proposed. I read it again to see if I missed something. I waited and read it 14hrs later. I still see nothing objectionable. The second temporal sphere is implied not expressed. It could be NOW or at any time in the future. Wh...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
October 20th, 2022, 11:38 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
Replies: 12
Views: 12160

Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15

The whole sentence (which you should have quoted in full) is οὐ γὰρ ἔχομεν ἀρχιερέα μὴ δυνάμενον συμπαθῆσαι ταῖς ἀσθενείαις ἡμῶν, πεπειρασμένον δὲ κατὰ πάντα καθ’ ὁμοιότητα χωρὶς ἁμαρτίας. There's only one present participle here, δυνάμενον, and in no way it gives any temporal reference for the test...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
October 19th, 2022, 5:34 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
Replies: 12
Views: 12160

Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15

Why? Why do you think there's a temporal reference?
by Eeli Kaikkonen
October 19th, 2022, 1:32 pm
Forum: New Testament
Topic: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15
Replies: 12
Views: 12160

Re: a temporal reference in Heb. 4:15

jgibson000 wrote: October 18th, 2022, 11:25 am as having a specific temporal reference
δια τι;
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 31st, 2022, 4:44 pm
Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
Topic: Verb aspect debate outside of Koine
Replies: 22
Views: 6067

Re: Verb aspect debate outside of Koine

Runge's article Contrastive Substitution and the Greek Verb might also be good reading. Steven sometimes writes here, too.

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