Posts in the category “Greek.”

December, 2006

Shiloh Inscription

Posted Sunday, December 24, 2006 by Charlie Trimm
Categories: Greek   Comments: None
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I was playing around with a Greek inscription the other day and I thought I would share my work and see if anyone can  help in the areas I cannot decipher. The pictures is found here, and I learned of the inscription here

 

 

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April, 2007

Multivalent Vocabulary in the Johannine Epistolary Corpus

Or, what did you say you meant when you said it the other time...

Posted Thursday, April 05, 2007 by Josh Michael
Categories: New TestamentGreek   Comments: 2
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The apostle John...merely a simple fisherman right?  Not a lot of formal education or sophisticated literary training presumably.  Known for writing the "baby Greek" beloved of all first-year Greek students.  Yet beneath the apparent simplicity of his vocabularly, a complex, interwoven construction of deep ideas.

The question at hand, can you use the same word to mean two different things in the same verse...?

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