Todd Chipman (associate professor of biblical studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) writes on a specific grammatical feature of 1 John, explaining how John’s use of articular substantival participles reinforces the consistency of Christian belief and behavior.
With this plan and these resources, you can start your lifelong journey with biblical Greek in less than a year. This plan is no walk in the park, but it will lead to a lifetime of fruitful study for the diligent student.
Year after year, students take Greek, pass Greek, and forget Greek. Maybe you were one of those students. Maybe you’re the one teaching them. How can we make the most of the tools available to us in Bible software, the most of our students’ time, and actually teach them to comprehend the basics? Danny Zacharias, associate professor of New Testament studies at Acadia Divinity College, wrote Biblical Greek Made Simple (Lexham Press) to answer those very questions.
Few have given the Greek text of James as much attention as William Varner. Listen as he shares his story with Greek, ministry, and more.
The new Tyndale House GNT fights a rising trend in textual criticism. Here’s some historical context.
“Keep your Bibles open. My job is to preach the text; your job is to make sure what I’m saying is really there,” my pastor said to begin his Easter morning sermon. Liam was appropriately preaching out of John 20, so I slipped out my Greek New Testament and tried to follow along in it. In doing so…
“For not one word of it did I understand, and to make me understand I was urged vehemently with cruel threats and punishments.”
There are around 1,000 questions in the Greek New Testament. That’s about 15% of the sentences in the NT. Are you equipped to handle their syntax, semantics, and pragmatic effects on discourse?
We recently featured an important new book on Greek verbs entitled The Greek Verb Revisited edited by Chris Fresch and Steven Runge. We wanted to learn more about the book and about co-editor Fresch’s research. Chris was kind enough to provide us with plenty of background on the book and lots of useful information on Greek verbal research. NB: Chris knows his stuff…
We recently featured Alan Thompson’s new Exegetical Guide to the Greek New Testament on Luke’s Gospel and we’re happy that he was able to conduct a little interview with us. You’ll learn much here about the exegetical process, about Greek, and about Dr. Thompson and his labors for the kingdom….