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Part 3 of our read-through of of Rachel Aubrey’s thesis on the Greek middle. Part 1., and Part 2. Numbers in brackets are page references. Chapter 2 of Aubrey’s thesis looks at the Greek middle in the context of other languages and their voice systems. How does
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Carrying on with our read-through of Rachel Aubrey's thesis on the Greek middle. Part 1 here. Numbers in brackets are page references. The rest of chapter 1 provides an overview of approaches to the middle. Aubrey commences this by highlighting two issues – (i) the semantic basis of
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This is a series of posts blogging my way through the very recent MA thesis of Rachel Aubrey on ‘HELLENISTIC GREEK MIDDLE VOICE: SEMANTIC EVENT STRUCTURE AND VOICE TYPOLOGY’ available here. I’m not a linguist, but I do my best to help non-linguists understand linguistic content. In this
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Most of my training in biblical studies occurred in a Reformed Protestant context, for which I am quite thankful. However, one of the problems of Protestant perspectives on early church history is a tendency to think, "right doctrines, dodgy exegesis". The narrative constructed is that the early church
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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
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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