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The New understandings in Greek, Part 4: Voice

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

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Review of Advances in the Study of New Testament Greek (C. Campbell)

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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Review of Decker’s Reading Koine Greek, Part 4

In this fourth and final part of my review of Decker’s book, I cover chapters 21-33, the Appendices, and some concluding comments. On p386, introducing participles, Decker gives the example text “I will be heading to bed right after the game. (This verbal form has a subject, so

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Where are your Keys? Friday Fun edition

I might stop posting here about every video, but here's another one to brighten your Friday. I do a lot of talking in English about techniques in this one, but there's plenty of Greek too. Next week I'll have some more videos in a

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Reviewing Decker’s “Reading Koine Greek”, part 3

It’s not my intention to give you an exacting series of comments on every chapter, so I’ll move a little quicker now and spend more time discussing points of interest. I was interested to see that in chapter 11, p200, Decker includes in his definition of χάρις “A

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Reviewing Decker's "Reading Koine Greek", part 2

You can read the first part of this multi-part review here. In this second part of the review I offer thoughts and comments on the first 10 chapters of the text. Decker demonstrates a great ability to write clear and communicative introductions to ideas that will strike English monoglots

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Reviewing Decker's "Reading Koine Greek", part 1

The late Rod Decker was a fine and outstanding academic, teacher, and although I never met him or had any interaction beyond his writings, I held him in considerable respect. His passing earlier this year was a loss for us, but great gain for him! I was grateful, then, that

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Where are your keys? Part 2

Today I share with you two more videos showcasing and teaching Koine Greek through Where are your Keys? 1. Lesson 2 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwA5OMaE5xU] 2. Lesson 3 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcHm_SOokBY]

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Where are your keys? - Koine Greek Edition

I have talked several times about Where are your Keys? and encouraged you to check it out. This week I started recording and uploading a series of videos to demonstrate or showcase how WAYK can work for Koine Greek. In this post I link to the first two videos, and