Greek
Here's the shortest case I can make. There are, depending on edition, 138,020 Greek words in the New Testament canon. Here are some comparable English works: 134,462 - The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien 134,710 - Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally 135,420
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Patristic Readers At the start of November I published the first volume, the Martyrdoms of Polycarp and Perpetua (Available now at createspace, and Amazon). This month I've been doing three things: I've just finished proofing the third Gregory text, and started compiling the vocabulary. I also
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Well, I'm wrapping up from the American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting 2015, and thought I'd compile some thoughts from it. Travel to/from Since I had to foot the bill for my own flights, I flew Korean Air from Sydney to
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This Thursday I'm off to SBL Annual in Atlanta. I'll be presenting in the Development of Early Christian Theology section on the Saturday at 4pm. Feel free to come along if you like hearing about exegesis in Basil. It's been 13 years since I
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October went by too quickly, in my opinion. I delayed this post a few days to get some important things done: Patristic Readers The great news is that a few minutes ago I approved the final proof and now you can purchase a print copy of the Martyrdoms of Polycarp
Thesis
Or, 'what I think my thesis is actually about'. I don’t post much about my thesis work, for a few different reasons, but here’s part of a draft introduction that I can pretty safely share. If you’d like to read some portions of my thesis
Thesis
There are two types of people in this world: those who dichotomise everything, and those that don't. Back when you took Church History 101 (You did take Church History 101??) you were told a story. It was a lying lie of a story in which the Orthodox were
Greek
This week we’re going to talk about voice in Greek and ‘deponency’. In some ways this is the most radical element of the new understandings, for those training in a traditional scheme. And yet, on the other hand, it is one of the elements about which there is the
Greek
I’m going to have a second go at talking about Aktionsart. I would begin by saying Aktionsart is simply a way of describing the type of action indicated by a predicate. As such ‘Aktionsart’ is a very wide-open term, no doubt contributing to its ambiguity. We might talk
Greek
This is a relatively short volume from Campbell, which can easily be read in a few days. It is pitched at what I would call the ‘Seminary and Biblical studies’ market. That is, seminarians, pastors, and others involved in biblical studies at a degree level or higher. It generally doesn’
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Wow, September. It went by. Mongolia I spent the first two weeks of the month over in Mongolia. It was a busy trip, though perhaps a little less busy socially than my last one in April. I taught a small Masters’ class, taking them through selected portions of Luke’s
Greek
So last time I talked about the shift from thinking about Greek as tense based/focused to aspect focused. Another term that you can hear a lot about these days is Aktionsart. But what is Aktionsart? The bad news is that people use this term in different ways. The word