Search found 307 matches

by Daniel Semler
August 28th, 2019, 10:49 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: In John 19:27 is it "to his own [home]" or "as his own [mother]"?
Replies: 2
Views: 8127

Re: In John 19:27 is it "to his own [home]" or "as his own [mother]"?

[Jhn 19:27 MGNT] (27) εἶτα λέγει τῷ μαθητῇ ἴδε ἡ μήτηρ σου καὶ ἀπ’ ἐκείνης τῆς ὥρας ἔλαβεν ὁ μαθητὴς αὐτὴν εἰς τὰ ἴδια Given it's neuter plural I would have taken it as "for his own possession/among his own possesssions". But that literal a thing here seems problematic. And "for his ...
by Daniel Semler
August 28th, 2019, 9:51 am
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

There are so many of these sentences that it kinda overwhelms me when I'm going through them one after the other. True enough but I think Dickey is right to provide a lot of practice material. It needs to become second nature so it pretty much has to be that way I think. When I got to the Sentences...
by Daniel Semler
August 27th, 2019, 10:28 pm
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

Hi Jason,

Thanx for posting these.

I've compared mine and yours and corrected a number of mine to yours.
A query below though :
Jason Hare wrote: August 26th, 2019, 5:38 pm Preliminary exercise 4 (on F and G).
e. οἱ μὴ κακοὶ μανθάνουσιν. // μανθάνουσιν οἱ μὴ κακοί.
Wouldn't this be οὐ as it's specific rather than general ?

Thx
D
by Daniel Semler
August 25th, 2019, 10:42 pm
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Group Progress
Replies: 24
Views: 40998

Re: Group Working Through Dickey's Greek Composition

I'm requesting an extension of the activities of chapter 2. ;) Wouldn't worry me. I am just into the Analysis exercises myself. Slowed myself down by typing them (probably be a benefit in the end) into a LibreOffice doc so I could apply Dickey's analysis method from Appendix C more rigorously. And ...
by Daniel Semler
August 25th, 2019, 10:38 pm
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

I learned μέλλω simply as "about (to happen)" or "coming," as in ὁ μέλλων αἰών , τὸ μέλλον κρίμα κτλ . I had never made any connection to the concept of "delay" with infinitive or that we should expect it to be used with a future participle to mean "about to...&qu...
by Daniel Semler
August 18th, 2019, 12:28 am
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

Alright, I'll start this one off. Here are preliminary exercises 1 and 2. I left out the ones that the answer key covers. Preliminary Exercise 1 m. slaves of the young woman (gen) * δούλων τῶν τῆς νέας n. the young woman's good slave (nom. 2 ways) * ὁ ἀγαθὸς δοῦλος ὁ τῆς νέας * ὁ τῆς νέας δοῦλος ὁ ...
by Daniel Semler
August 17th, 2019, 11:36 pm
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

EricSowell wrote: August 17th, 2019, 10:51 pm Cambridge Grammar by Boas/Rijksbaron/Huitink/Bakker (do we have a good acronym for this yet?),
Is CGCG starting to stick ? I think I've seen it used.

Thx
D
by Daniel Semler
August 17th, 2019, 11:33 pm
Forum: Eleanor Dickey: Composition and Analysis of Greek Prose
Topic: [Dickey] Ch 2: Preliminary Exercises
Replies: 20
Views: 29067

Re: Dickey, Composition: Ch 2, Preliminary Exercises

Just looking at how much she expects us to read from Smyth is intimidating. I haven't cracked Smyth open for this chapter yet. Yikes!! That's what I thought initially too. I read it over several sessions. It's a lot but a lot of it was familiar but things like the dual were good to read as a lot of...
by Daniel Semler
August 17th, 2019, 10:08 pm
Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
Topic: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference
Replies: 88
Views: 86481

Re: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference

Also, I gleaned some interesting facts about the famous "Parade Analogy" in "The Greek Verb Revisited" (Christopher Thomson's aritcle on "What is Aspect", pg. 13-80). I highly recommend you get that book, BTW. I have a copy as it turns out - couldn't remember if I'd bo...
by Daniel Semler
August 17th, 2019, 11:11 am
Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
Topic: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference
Replies: 88
Views: 86481

Re: Aorist indicative with future temporal reference

D-- your question shows scholars getting entrapped/mixed up in the domain of their metaphors. For Peter Gentry, he was saying that the roots of the morphological ε- augment came from an adverbial marker that was associated with 'farther away, over there'. So far, so good. However, when applied to v...

Go to advanced search