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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 24/02/2025

This is basically out sentiment. Some of the replies we received:

Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 17/01/2025

Our Greek dictionaries, with their glosses, suggest that the paraphrases are the meaning of the preposition. But think about how ridiculous that is. Can you recreate the meaning of the English preposition 'over' from these glosses???

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 17/01/2025

All of these prepositional phrases have non-'over' paraphrases.

● Mary held the flashlight over her head (=above her head).
● The mountain towered over the village (= higher than the village).
● The bus drove us over the border (=across the border).
● The vulture flew over the desert (=above and across the desert).
● He lives over the hill from me (=beyond the hill).
● He is over a hundred years old (=more than a hundred years old).
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one (= compared to the blue one).
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem (=because of the chess problem).
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner (=about and because of the cost of dinner).

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 17/01/2025

But let's talk about English 'over'. All of these are examples of English 'over' usage, both spatial and abstract.

● Mary held the flashlight over her head.
● The mountain towered over the village.
● The bus drove us over the border.
● The vulture flew over the desert.
● He lives over the hill from me.
● He is over a hundred years old.
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one.
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem.
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 05/01/2025

'Weaved' is coming for you. You'll have to live it with.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 08/12/2024

We're really pleased with how this second edition of /Greek prepositions in the New Testament: A cognitive-functional description/ is turning out for print! Headed toward proofreading now.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 18/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #442,736! Here's to it going somewhere!

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 18/08/2024

Strong's is a bad reference, yes. Strongbad references are fine, however.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 17/07/2024

Chapter outline for a book on the history of linguistics in biblical studies that I'll never write. #biblicalgreek #biblicalhebrew

A history of linguistics in biblical studies
from the 19th century through today
Part I: The philological origins
1. 19th century linguistics and biblical studies
2. The comparativists and the “almost golden age”
3. Linguistics in biblical studies after World War I
4. The rise of theological dictionaries
5. Bad linguistics in biblical theology
Part II: Two streams of grammar in conflict: Traditional and linguistic
6. James Barr’s corrective
7. Structuralist lexical semantics, but nobody cares
8. Syntax, but just make it morphology
9. Linguistics for the PhD, but not for thee
10. Grammar above the sentence, but never above the word
Epilogue: Why are we even here?

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 04/07/2024

Revisions/expansions of Mike & Rachel Aubrey's prepositions book for print are happening! #ancientgreek #prepositions #cognitivelinguistics

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 20/04/2024

Okay. I have an essay planned out for why contexts like James 1:11 aren't a problem for the idea that the aorist indicative communicates not just aspect, but also past tense (contra Porter). #biblicalgreek

James 1:9-11 from the SBLGNT:
9 Καυχάσθω δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ, 10 ὁ δὲ πλούσιος ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου παρελεύσεται. 11 ἀνέτειλεν γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος σὺν τῷ καύσωνι καὶ ἐξήρανεν τὸν χόρτον, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσεν καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο· οὕτως καὶ ὁ πλούσιος ἐν ταῖς πορείαις αὐτοῦ μαρανθήσεται.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 12/01/2024

Going through my old draft notes from 7 months ago for a chapter on the history of linguistics in biblical studies and I'm like: "What in the world is Sweeney (1983)?!?!? What did I cite it for?!?!?" Send help!

Multiple, but disconnected, paragraphs of text that survey the history of linguistics in biblical studies, ends with inexplicable and out of context author (DATE) citation of Sweeney (1983:667) highlighted in yellow.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 01/01/2024

Fairly early in the year it was clear that this was going to be the biggest year yet for views at koine-greek.com. I had thought we'd hit ~85,000, but once conference season role around, I needed cut back and then decided to take it easy for the holidays. Still...

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 26/10/2023

Constructions and the Source-Path-Goal Image Schema in the Cognitive Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation section.

Paper abstract:
The SOURCE-PATH-GOAL image schema constitutes a common meaning structure across languages that is grounded in our shared embodied human experience (Lakoff 1987, Hampe and Grady 2005). In Ancient Greek, its formal realization occurs as grammatical constructions. We document how the image schema’s realization in the language forms a small family of constructions expressed via prepositions and how the meaning of these prepositional constructions realize semantics across different conceptual domains (Croft and Cruse 2004, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2007). Some more basic realizations including the primary spatial domain (Luraghi 2003): Ἄγουσιν οὖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ Καϊάφα εἰς τὸ πραιτώριον (‘they brought Jesus from Caipha to the governor’s residence’, Jn 18:28), the temporal domain: Ἀπογράφονται δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ πέμπτης καὶ εἰκάδος τοῦ Παχὼν ἕως τῆς τετάρτης τοῦ Ἐπιφί (‘They registered them from the twenty-fifth day of the month of Pachon until the fourth of Epeiph’, 3 Macc 6:38)

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 26/10/2023

Made a meme for 2 Cor 3:18. Trying to convince Rachel to include it in the slides.

Office meme: "they're the same picture" with the word "picture" replaced with glory because the phrase "from glory to glory" in 2 Cor 3:18 refers to how the reflection of God's glory in the faces of Christians.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 11/10/2023

Translators don't get how mirrors work. If the glory is reflecting as from a mirror—re:2 Cor 3:17—then it isn't increasing (NIV: 'ever-increasing glory', ESV/NRSV: 'from one degree of glory to another').

The text of 2 Corinthians 3:18: "We with unveiled faces, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed from glory to glory, just as from the Lord the Spirit."

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 06/09/2023

Wherein Mounce complains about the very people he wants to buy his grammar. "Nobody learns English grammar anymore." "How can I teach Greek grammar unless they know English grammar?" If you think that, maybe you're not actually teaching Greek grammar at all. Maybe you're just teaching English.

Jargon in Mounce (2019)
In his introduction: “At the beginning … comes a discussion of English grammar and then a summary of Greek grammar where I make as many comparisons as possible between English and Greek, with an emphasis on the similarities between the two languages” (2019: xv).
On nouns: “Many do not know enough English grammar to learn Greek grammar. I cannot teach about the Greek nominative case until you know what a case is.” (2019: 27).
On non-verbal predication: “It is incorrect English to say, ‘The teacher is me,’ regardless of current usage, because ‘me’ is objective while ‘I’ is subjective. We should say, ‘The teacher is I.’” (2019: 69).

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 03/09/2023

There was also never any reason to use the phrase "naked cases."

Page 362 of Wallace's Greek grammar with the phrase "naked cases" highlighted in his discussion distinguishing postclassical Greek's propensity for prepositions vs. case-marked noun phrases.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 03/09/2023

In Wallace's Greek grammar beyond the basics, the prepositions chapter appears under the section "Nouns and nominals"???

Beginning of Wallace's (1996) chapter on Greek prepositions noting that it appears in the section "Syntax of Nouns and Nominals" for some strange reason.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · 19/08/2023

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