I've done Koine Greek with Biblical Language Center over zoom. The courses were excellent.
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- January 11th, 2022, 10:52 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Courses offered online
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5468
- December 14th, 2021, 8:07 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Matt 3:3 οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ῥηθεὶς διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου
- Replies: 2
- Views: 978
Re: Matt 3:3 οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ῥηθεὶς διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου
οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ῥηθεὶς διὰ Ἠσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος, Φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ· Ἑτοιμάσατε τὴν ὁδὸν κυρίου, εὐθείας ποιεῖτε τὰς τρίβους αὐτοῦ. How does the historical present ἐστιν function in this verse? My first reaction was, is it an historical present ? Isn't this just "this is what w...
- December 5th, 2021, 4:14 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: John 8:54 pronoun
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15003
Re: John 8:54 pronoun
It’s not a simple direct object. As far as I can tell. It’s proleptic for topicalization and the case assignment follows that. English prefers other devices for topicalization, including “of whom.” Hmmm... I think we might be saying the same thing using different metalanguage. Perhaps, but the clai...
- December 2nd, 2021, 11:42 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: How to know when your seeing a Greek Grammar Rule
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4744
Re: How to know when your seeing a Greek Grammar Rule
Several times through Mounces Basics of Biblical Greek he will give many different ways things can be done in Greek. For example, a neuter plural, or moving a word to the beginning of a sentence to show emphasis. I am a slow learner so I am only doing one chapter a week (textbook, video lecture, me...
- December 2nd, 2021, 11:16 am
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7288
Re: Middle Verb/Deponent Verb Parsing
These days, most people here on B-Greek don't talk about deponents. Carl Conrad and others have convinced us that verbs are never deponent ("broken"), the old linguistic description was broken. This may be a bit much for a beginner who is working out of Mounce, but if you want to understa...
- November 11th, 2021, 4:01 pm
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: John 8:54 pronoun
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15003
Re: John 8:54 pronoun
So : whom you say is your God. This translation of the "our" to "your" exists in several translations I have and is very natural it seems to me and has no need of "of". Our/your is actually a text critical issue: John 8:54 {B} θεὸς ἡμῶν 𝔓75 A B2 C W Δ Θ 070 0141 0233 f...
- November 11th, 2021, 11:13 am
- Forum: Greek Language and Linguistics
- Topic: John 8:54 pronoun
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15003
Re: John 8:54 pronoun
ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς, Ἐὰν ἐγὼ δοξάσω ἐμαυτόν, ἡ δόξα μου οὐδέν ἐστιν· ἔστιν ὁ πατήρ μου ὁ δοξάζων με, ὃν ὑμεῖς λέγετε ὅτι θεὸς ἡμῶν ἐστιν... It seems most sensible to me to read ὅν as referring back to ὁ πατήρ μου . I don’t think it could be read otherwise. It should be read more directly as: ὑμεῖς λέγε...
- October 28th, 2021, 10:10 am
- Forum: Other Greek Texts
- Topic: Use of αὐτός in Arrian's preface to Epictetus, Discourses
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5619
Re: Use of αὐτός in Arrian's preface to Epictetus, Discourses
A lurker has very helpfully pointed me to Smyth 1525 and says that he associates the construction with the classical historians, esp. Xenophon, and often with the element of destruction. 1525. With αὐτός.—The idea of accompaniment is often expressed by αὐτός joined to the dative. This use is common...
- October 15th, 2021, 11:07 am
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: 2nd Person Plural Pronouns
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5849
Re: 2nd Person Plural Pronouns
I should probably add what I now recall from school growing up in Australia, "yous". Thx D Perhaps getting of topic, in certain parts of Baltimore and suburbs (such as Dundalk) one can frequently here "yous guys..." English just begs for the return of its second personl plural, ...
- October 14th, 2021, 8:59 pm
- Forum: Learning Paradigms
- Topic: 2nd Person Plural Pronouns
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5849
Re: 2nd Person Plural Pronouns
Second person plural is "y'all" in southern parts of the US (or "ye" in King James English). First person plural is "we"/"us". Hello, In the paradigm for εἰμί Bill Mounce says that the second person plural means "you" but that it is a plural "y...