Tag Archives: Biblical Greek

Free New Testament Commentary Ebooks

The regular Kindle prices are great, but Baker is offering selected commentaries free for one day on Jan. 9 (past, alas!), Jan. 16, and Jan 23. Today’s is on James. More at Evangelical Textual Criticism.

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Mounce on Matthew 2:8, May, and Might

A good discussion, especially of the aorist adverbial participle followed by an imperative.

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Dave Black on Greek Study Resources

Dave Black suggests ten books for studying New Testament Greek during 2012. Four of these are on my regular list and a couple more are on my reading list. I might work on a list of my own when I’m … Continue reading

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Helps and Keeping Up Your Greek

Dave Black has another good paragraph on keeping up your Greek: I will not go into the mechanics of keeping up with your Greek this summer. For this, you can refer to my book Using New Testament Greek in Ministry, … Continue reading

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Keeping Your Greek (or Not)

Via Dave Black, I came across this review of the book Keep Your Greek: Strategies for Busy People. I’m going to try to get a copy of this book at some point, as I deal with many people who would … Continue reading

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Dave Black: Ten Best Books for Studying New Testament Greek

David Alan Black has posted a new essay, Ten Best Books for Studying New Testament Greek.  The majority are books I have read and/or are on my shelves, but there are a couple that are just on my “need to … Continue reading

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On Etymological and Anti-Etymological Fallacies

Clayboy has an excellent post on preachers who say “What the Greek really means…” or words to that effect.  I was drawn to this one because of my own experience. My wife tells me that when we first got married … Continue reading

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Mounce on What the Greek Says

Bill Mounce, author of the wonderful Basics of Biblical Greek, which I have used in teaching, has a post at Koinonia titled <em>Matthew 7:26-Is a moros a moron</em>, with the very proper answer–NO! There are two things I’d like to … Continue reading

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Etymology but no Fallacy

I’m glad to see Bill Mounce discuss valid use of etymology.  I’ve long thought that we have fallen into an “every etymology is a fallacy” trap, but it’s good to see an acknowledged expert say that.  Note that the vast … Continue reading

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Is Come or Has Come in 1 John 4:2

It’s probably a sin, but I simply couldn’t resist. I recorded a video response to a YouTube KJV Only video.

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