How’s that New Year’s resolution going? You know, the one you made last year, too? Didn’t you resolve to read Hebrew and Greek for 10 minutes each every morning? Or was it 20 minutes?
[Read more…]Keeping Up Your Biblical Languages…Again
Review: Mounce’s 4th edition of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar
By Daniel K. Eng | University of Cambridge
Earlier this year, William D. Mounce released the fourth edition of his widely-used Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Zondervan), in time to be used for instruction in summer courses. I taught first-year Greek at an evangelical seminary this summer 2019 using this new edition. Here is my review of this introductory grammar.
[Read more…]How to Write a Commentary on Revelation
Earlier this month, Ian Paul gave a paper at the annual meeting of the British New Testament Society, in the Revelation seminar group, on his experience of writing a commentary. This is what he said.
[Read more…]Use Greek and Hebrew with Keyboard Selector
We read and study the Bible in the original languages. That is a non-negotiable. Hebrew and Greek are as fundamental to the work of the scholar and preacher as a hammer in a toolkit. We use the original languages in our day-to-day workflow, including our digital resources. A new tool in Logos helps you do just that.
[Read more…]BrillDAG: Last Chance to Pre-Order
A few months ago we announced that BrillDAG was finally going to be available on Logos. At that time, we wanted to make you aware of the fact that you could pre-order this incredible resource at a discounted price. Well, due to demand, the pre-order period is coming to a close in order to release BrillDAG in all its brilliance as part of the Logos Digital Library.
[Read more…]Case Frame Analysis for Dummies
By Brent Niedergall | Youth Pastor, Catawba Springs Christian Church
I. Introduction
Sermon preparation is best performed behind a towering stack of commentaries and lexicons (physical or virtual) where one can grapple with diverging views on theology, interpretation, and the meaning of words. Understanding how a word is used in a passage is a fundamental of exegesis. And the highest authority you can appeal to in New Testament study is BDAG. When the commentators are in disunity, you can always flip through BDAG and hope it cites the passage you’re studying. There you’ll find column after column of carefully arranged entries filled with definitions, glosses, explanations, and citations as supporting evidence. The data all looks rather impressive, but as the Bible student eventually comes to realize, selecting the correct sense is a balance of art and science. There are options. But what if there was a lexicon that required less art and more science?
[Read more…]Read Plutarch; Think Well, Live Well.
If I could encourage anyone to do anything that might lift their minds from debase thinking (and their eyes from small black mirrors), it would be this: read Plutarch.
[Read more…]A Side-by-Side Comparison of Brill’s GE and LSJM: Which is Better?
Words by Mike Aubrey, Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger
Both Brill’s new Dictionary of Ancient Greek (GE) and Liddell and Scott Greek–English Lexicon with Revised Supplement (LSJM) are more or less the same size and length. As a publishing decision, this introduces an important set of constraints upon GE’s editors, who must make various judgments, comprises, and decisions in what they choose to prioritize.
[Read more…]Brill’s New Dictionary & the State of Greek Lexicography
Words by Mike Aubrey. Photographs by Tavis Bohlinger
Brill’s Dictionary of Ancient Greek is finally here for Logos. Or, at least, it’s finally available for pre-order. Many of us Greek language geeks have been rather eagerly waiting for its digital appearance on Logos, though perhaps other Logos users might be wondering what Brill’s GE (the editors’ preferred abbreviation) can contribute to their libraries. Here are some questions that you be asking yourself already:
[Read more…]Resisting Empire in Hebrews: An Interview with Jason Whitlark
We asked a few question recently of Jason Whitlark (Baylor University) regarding his recent book, Resisting Empire: Rethinking the Purpose of the Letter to “the Hebrews” (T&T Clark). Jason’s book is part of the special LNTS series (2016), that you can get for a great price through pre-publication (see below). Enjoy the interview, and leave comments below!
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