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- July 2nd, 2019, 7:33 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Why not start with modern Greek?
- Replies: 93
- Views: 3722911
Re: Why not start with modern Greek?
Learning modern Hebrew will only assist in learning biblical Hebrew, but learning modern Hebrew is not sufficient for proficiency in the biblical language. Since you live in Israel, maybe you can confirm or deny this. What I was told is that for someone who has learned modern Hebrew, reading the Bi...
- June 8th, 2019, 9:38 am
- Forum: Projects
- Topic: Center for New Testament Restoration
- Replies: 14
- Views: 64062
Re: Center for New Testament Restoration
As a newcomer to B-Greek, and also to the study of Biblical Greek, I apologize if I have misunderstood anything in your earlier posts on this thread, but I would like to ask you this: Will the CNTR project make it possible to click on any verse in the NT and see at a glance all the different manuscr...
- May 28th, 2019, 2:50 pm
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21611
Re: No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
Thank you, Barry. Would you say it's a plausible conjecture, then, that that explains why the LXX translators slipped an extra vowel into Σαλωμὼν?
- May 28th, 2019, 7:52 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7584
Re: Introduction
Okay, Jason. Thanks!
- May 27th, 2019, 4:07 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Why is λόγος consistently translated as "word"?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 41971
Re: Why is λόγος consistently translated as "word"?
This might explain why the NT usage of the word slants slightly more toward "utterance" than does BDAG; it could be a mild Hebraism. There are two Hebrew translations of the NT in common use, and in both of them John’s word λόγος is translated as דָּבָר ( davar or dabar ). Assuming that t...
- May 27th, 2019, 2:40 pm
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21611
Re: No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
And there is a possible (rather, probable) typo in another footnote: 3 P.Leid. X, 1: “To get lead to harden, melt it, sprinkle it with flaked alum and vitriol, ground fine and mixed together; and it will be hard” (καὶ ἔσται σλκηρός); c “σκληροκαρδία, σκληρός, σκληρότης, σκληροτράχηλος, σκληρύνω,” T...
- May 27th, 2019, 10:39 am
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Discrepancies between verb tables
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9919
Re: Discrepancies between verb tables
For the pluperfect, Green lists the endings as -κειν, -κεις, -κει, -κειμεν, -κειτε, -κε(ι)σαν, while Dik’s Secondary Indicative Perfect reads ἐλελύκη, ἐλελύκης, ἐλελύκει, ἐλελύκεμεν, ἐλελύκετε, ἐλελύκεσαν. I can certainly see a close resemblance, particularly in the 3rd sing. and plur., but they are...
- May 27th, 2019, 8:18 am
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: What do the three different accents indicate?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 15528
Re: What do the three different accents indicate?
Thank you, Stephen. That is something to be going on with, though I can’t claim to have fully understood what you’re saying about pitch. Would it be akin to a rising or falling tone in Chinese? From a post of yours on another thread, where you mention your time at Duke, I see that different teachers...
- May 27th, 2019, 5:40 am
- Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
- Topic: No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 21611
No Greek words beginning with σλ-?
There seem to be no Greek words beginning with σλ-. Is that correct? Would it have been regarded as an unacceptable consonant cluster? If so, it seems odd in a language that has no objection to σκ-, σμ-, and others. And might it explain the α inserted in the biblical name Σαλωμὼν, where “Σλωμὼν” wou...
- May 26th, 2019, 12:12 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introduction
- Replies: 4
- Views: 7584
Re: Introduction
Thank you, Barry. Please feel free to change my username to my real name, Brian Gould.