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...
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...@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...
"Paul is not paraphrasing the OT in 1 Cor. 1:19; he is quoting from the Old Greek translation of Isaiah." —Dr. Christopher J. Fresch
(This post was originally written in 2013 and published at my previous blog, Old School Script.) Imagine you are listening to a sermon during which the preacher says in passing, "Here, Paul quotes the...
From @mikeaubrey.bsky.social, of course.
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...