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by Jonathan Robie
August 17th, 2023, 3:44 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Aorist stem formation
Replies: 9
Views: 6998

Re: Aorist stem formation

Devenios Doulenios wrote: August 16th, 2023, 11:27 am How does the Cambridge grammar define thematic aorist? (I don't have access.)
Cambridge has:
  • Sigmatic Aorists and Pseudo-Sigmatic Aorists
  • Thematic Aorists
  • Root Aorists
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by Jonathan Robie
August 15th, 2023, 2:27 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts
Replies: 11
Views: 4197

Re: ξύλον translated as “tree” in Deuteronomy and Acts

I have not looked at these carefully, but here are places where a database glosses treats עֵ֖ץ as "tree". Most of these involve forms of δένδρον or χῦλον. ["GEN 2:9!7",עֵ֛ץ,"χύλον","tree"] ["LEV 19:23!7",עֵ֣ץ,"χύλον","tree"] [&quo...
by Jonathan Robie
August 14th, 2023, 8:06 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Ensor - 1 Corinthians Color-Coded: A Beginning-Intermediate Greek Reader
Replies: 1
Views: 755

Re: Ensor - 1 Corinthians Color-Coded: A Beginning-Intermediate Greek Reader

I thought I would take a look. Here are two pages from that reader, taken from their website.


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by Jonathan Robie
August 3rd, 2023, 8:52 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Replies: 13
Views: 5578

Re: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)

Wiktionary tells me that the άνω τελεία is used thus: 1. Separates groups of clauses in a sentence. 2. Separates two parts of a sentence where a κόμμα is thought to be inadequate. But Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς is not a clause, and the whitespace separates these three very parallel lines (which ...
by Jonathan Robie
July 31st, 2023, 9:08 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Fresch - Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique
Replies: 19
Views: 11460

Re: Fresch - Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique

How much overlap does this book have with Discourse Features of NT Greek by Levinsohn? I am starting to work through this book. Of course, Levinsohn is NT and Fresch is LXX, but my question is whether the same principles are expounded? I would jump for the Fresch book, but the price tag makes me wi...
by Jonathan Robie
July 29th, 2023, 8:59 am
Forum: Books
Topic: Fresch - Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique
Replies: 19
Views: 11460

Re: Fresch - Discourse Markers in Early Koine Greek: Cognitive Functional Analysis and LXX Translation Technique

Have finished reading this book now. It truly is a great book, very highly informative about the respective Discourse Markers (DM) as used in the Papyri and LXX. Lots of new terminology to get to grips with if you're not used to this sort of book, but nothing overwhelming in my opinion. OK, I bough...
by Jonathan Robie
July 28th, 2023, 6:33 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 4457

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

As Dr. Seamas Macdonald has noted (blog, The Patrologist), translation is a higher order skill, not a lower order one. That is, it is not a skill that beginners have much of. And it often requires thinking about our own language at a level most of us don't. For instance, in English, would we really...
by Jonathan Robie
July 28th, 2023, 12:05 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 4457

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

And second (and please keep it simple!) when is it OK to translate an Aorist as a Present (or Future)? Ingressive Aorists are a common example. There are also gnomic aorists, e.g. 1 Pet. 1:24 - ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν. You don't translate that "the grass withered and the flowe...
by Jonathan Robie
July 28th, 2023, 9:47 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17
Replies: 16
Views: 4457

Re: εὐδόκησα in Matthew 3:17

The verb is stative, like with βασιλευω which can mean "begin ruling as king, become king, ascend to the throne" in aorist. It has the beginning of the state in view. This of course may raise theological questions like "well, how come he wasn't pleased at some point in time, that's i...
by Jonathan Robie
July 27th, 2023, 9:42 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)
Replies: 13
Views: 5578

Re: Punctuation in the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13)

In a recent discussion by email with some others, it was noted that lhm (forgive the transliteration) in Hebrew and ἄρτοs in Greek both really have a semantic center more in the general idea of "food" rather than "bread" in particular. Hebrew more so than Greek, although the Heb...

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