Language is not removed from cultural contexts. Patterns in grammar can reflect the social structures of speakers. Here, voice alternations associate with sex for verbs of marital (dis)union. #biblicalgreek#linguistics@mikeaubrey.bsky.social.
A few days ago, the Classics Blog, Sententiae Antiquae, had a lovely piece on how language, grammar, and gender often intersect. A man marries, a woman gets married, but what about divorce & ad…
Sometimes I forget that the Biblical Studies Carnival exists and then I'm pleasantly surprised! Some great stuff to read for this past month. #biblicalgreek#biblicalstudies
Well, it’s October 1st! We are rapidly approaching the best holiday of the year (Halloween) and for those of us with school-aged children we are well into another year of homework, extracurri…
There is an entire ecosystem of postclassical Greek scholarship that most NT scholars seem unaware. We can reach for a larger collection of voices when we think about any number of topics in Greek grammar. And we all stand to benefit. #linguistics#biblicalgreek@mikeaubrey.bsky.social.
Recently, in a discussion with a friend, I noted that there is often a knowledge gap between the work done on Classical Greek as compared to the work done in Biblical Greek. It occurred to me that …
Rachel & I just submitted our manuscript of Greek prepositions in the New Testament: A Cognitive-Functional Description! We love a good grammar & dictionary! You should absolutely own both! But there's so much more to say about prepositions! Via @mikeaubrey.bsky.social#linguistics#biblicalgreek
Rachel and I just submitted our manuscript of Greek prepositions in the New Testament: A Cognitive-Functional Description, 2nd edition! We all love a good grammar or dictionary! If you work in Biblica...
Why we don't say that English has a middle voice, but we do say that Greek has a middle voice! Via @mikeaubrey.bsky.social#linguistics#biblicalgreek
English has constructions that sort of look like Greek middle voice. The door closed (Greek: ἐκλείσθη ἡ θύρα)Rachel got dressed. (Greek: ἐνεδύσατο Ῥαχήλ) English also has a well-developed set of refle...
Aubrey & Aubrey (2025) Greek prepositions in the New Testament: A cognitive-functional description is almost real. We finished proofing, editing+final checking/clean up. I've published articles & defended theses, but turning in a book manuscript is most unnerving. #linguistics#biblicalgreek
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A Bible translation colleague recently dealt with this on language project. So this indigenous language now has a translation of Acts 9:36 that's more accurate than major English translations. A brief note on antelope, gazelle, & deer koine-greek.com/2024/09/22/a... via @mikeaubrey.bsky.social
All major English translations in Acts 9:36 completely fail to communicate what the author of Acts is trying to do here: tell his readers that the name 'Tabitha' is a Aramaic word (טַבְיְתָא) that mea...
The preposition περί can function to express category structures. It's spatial sense "Location Around" still provides motivation, but with abstract nouns that plays out in a different way. #biblicalgreek#linguistics#cognitivelinguistics
There are plenty of abstract uses of the preposition περί—the most comment is TOPIC with verbs of thought and communication. But with many other non-communication situations, the preposition περί ofte...
Came across this quote that I collected in 2011 from John Hewson on how people often mistakenly confuse form & function with tense-aspect forms. It feels relevant in the eternally stationary NT Greek aspect debates. #biblicalgreekkoine-greek.com/2011/10/27/c...@koine-greek.com.
Fundamentally different approaches have been taken [in the past century of research on tense and aspect … so that definitions have been based on (a) formal, (b) cognitive (c) functional or (d) real wo...