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A NT Studies Milestone: Translation of Strack-Billerbeck’s Talmudic-Midrashic Commentary on the NT

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By Jacob Cerone

Lexham Press has just made a significant contribution to biblical studies with the translation, editing, and publication of the massive 3-volume Strack-Billerbeck Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Midrash. Every verse in the New Testament is illuminated with potentially relevant passages from the keystone works of rabbinic Jewish theological thought, the Talmud and Midrash. Jacob Cerone, General Editor and key translator of the work (also doctoral candidate at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen-Nürnberg) provides an excellent example of how S-B can benefit the research and teaching interests of scholars and pastors alike:

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So You Want to Learn German: Translating German Texts with Logos

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Part 3 of Translating German Texts with Logos

I am not a linguist. I have not studied pedagogy. I am not a native German speaker nor do I consider myself fluent. Furthermore, I have never taught German. So what I offer in this post is not the wisdom of an expert or even opinions of an aficionado. My aims and goals are simple: the exchange of resources, information, and tools from one student to another.

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Translating German Texts with Logos: Searching for Definitions

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by Jacob Cerone

While digital resources can certainly be read from “cover to cover”—and should be—one of the things that I have found most exciting about Logos Bible Software as a digital library platform is the way it has reimagined what we can do with books and the way we approach their contents. [Read more…]

Translating German Texts with Logos

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by Jacob Cerone

Getting Acquainted with the Subject

Translation is no easy task. It requires extensive knowledge, not just of the source and target languages, but also of the topic under discussion in the text at hand. Without proficiency in the target language—usually the translator’s mother tongue—comical translations can result. [Read more…]

A Better Way to Read German

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Learning a new language—whatever language that might be—takes time and effort. German is no different. Some might even say that certain features make it a more difficult language than others. This is partly due to the fact that German is an inflected language; it has a host of irregular verbs, the gender of nouns is not readily apparent from their endings but must be memorized, and there are those tricky issues of verb placement and separable prefixes.

Thus, German is the bane and solace of many biblical scholars of whatever subdiscipline. [Read more…]

The Open Secret to Mastering Greek and Hebrew Vocabulary (It’s Not Flashcards)

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You could tell I was one of them. The hole-punched cards hanging from a steel ring on my belt loop gave me away.

I was an ancient language student.

The cards were my flashcards, and I didn’t go anywhere without them: to class, to the student dining room, to the dorm, to the movies, even to weddings. I would flip through them whenever I had a spare moment.

I had to, because learning a new language requires discipline and perseverance. Even after you’ve conquered the grammatical and syntactical intricacies of the language, you still need to add more (and more) words to your vocabulary storehouse—and somehow maintain what you’ve already learned.

While flashcards were helpful, I found they weren’t enough. I needed a better way to learn new words and reinforce the words I already knew.

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