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by Barry Hofstetter
May 13th, 2011, 6:42 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Illustrating Semantic Range
Replies: 4
Views: 5775

Re: Illustrating Semantic Range

Jonathan, these are good observations, but notice that my first reason was: Unfamiliarity with the language So I agree completely. The more familiar we are with a language, the greater the chance we'll get it right. But I think we've all seen agenda driven lexical fallacy, as well... :? So that mean...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 12th, 2011, 12:34 am
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: Illustrating Semantic Range
Replies: 4
Views: 5775

Illustrating Semantic Range

My favorite example to illustrate semantic range to show how context restricts that range (in normal prose) to one usage: The captain can run the ship with a run in her stocking while her crew members run a race on the run on deck 10. A native speaker of English will find such a sentence odd, but ne...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 11th, 2011, 5:26 pm
Forum: Bible Study Software
Topic: What software doesn't do ....
Replies: 11
Views: 31793

Re: What software doesn't do ....

Are there things you think software should do well, that aren't done well by any Bible study software you've used? If so, what? What Software does do these days is amazing. However, I am more concerned with what people do with Software who have not had the training in the languages. This is a pet p...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 10th, 2011, 7:03 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Replies: 0
Views: 2868

N.E. Barry Hofstetter

Greetings, all... B.A., Ancient Studies, University of Maryland Balt. Co., 1981 M.A., Classics, 1986, The Ohio State University M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary, 1989 Th.M., WTS (New Testament Studies), 1991 Currently teaching Latin, Greek and Bible at The American Academy. Seems like I spen...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 10th, 2011, 6:30 pm
Forum: Unicode and Fonts
Topic: Multi-Key
Replies: 1
Views: 17475

Multi-Key

Just for general typing, I have found Multikey very helpful. It has everything the user could want for a polytonic unicode Greek font, and lots of other stuff besides. Some of the keyboard assignments are a bit idiosyncratic, but hey, what's not? :) I can only speak to the Greek at this point – I've...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 10th, 2011, 6:16 pm
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: Lucian of Samasota
Replies: 6
Views: 3824

Re: Lucian of Samasota

Mark nailed it – the citation is from Lucian's own introduction to his work which imitates the introductory style one might find from Thucydides, et al. I actually did not read this with my students, but, since they had just finished C&S, gave it to them in English translation and started them i...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 10th, 2011, 11:51 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Rev 4.2 καθημένος - awkward construction?
Replies: 6
Views: 2618

Re: Rev 4.2 καθημένος - awkward construction?

Carl, that's a really good analogy. I remember back in graduate school taking a seminar in Greek orators, reading folks like Isocrates and Demosthenes. For a research project on persecution in the ancient church I sat down to read Revelation, and was shocked at the strangeness of the Greek. I rememb...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 10th, 2011, 6:40 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Rev 4.2 καθημένος - awkward construction?
Replies: 6
Views: 2618

Re: Rev 4.2 καθημένος - awkward construction?

"Go not to Revelation for grammar, young man!" But while I would be hard pressed to find a classical author or even another Koine writer expressing it this way, I think what we have with καθήμενος in 4:2 is an anarthrous substantive, with an appropriate verb to be supplied from context, κε...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 6th, 2011, 10:00 pm
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: Lucian of Samasota
Replies: 6
Views: 3824

Re: Lucian of Samasota

Interesting Mark -- I can see clear allusions (all over the place) to Homer, and I think the Aeneid (when they come ashore on the Wine island it sounds to me more like the Aeneid than anything else, when Aeneas' people come ashore after the great storm in book 1), but how do you see him making fun o...
by Barry Hofstetter
May 6th, 2011, 5:51 pm
Forum: Other Greek Texts
Topic: Lucian of Samasota
Replies: 6
Views: 3824

Lucian of Samasota

In reading Lucian's Ἀληθῆ Διηγήματα with my students, it strikes me that there is a formality to Lucian's expression and style that is practically formulaic. Whereas in Plato or Xenophon, or practically any author whose native language was Greek, there is often a variety of expression – the author w...

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