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On Mastering Koine Greek: A Response to Bohlinger and Nguyen

March 9, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 7 Comments

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by Christoph Heilig*

Introduction

Two weeks ago, Tavis Bohlinger wrote a blogpost in which he encouraged students and scholars of the New Testament to focus on the “common dialect,” ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος of the Greek language—that is, the Greek spoken roughly between 300 BCE and 300 CE.  In the German-speaking sphere, from which I come, many students of theology still learn “Classical Greek” as it was used between 500 and 300 BCE (well, at least the Attic dialect of that time). [Read more…]

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Christoph Heilig on “What makes a good Biblical Scholar or Theologian?”

February 5, 2018 by Tavis Bohlinger 2 Comments

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For me personally, a good biblical scholar is someone who enriches the discipline not only, and not even primarily, through his or her publications, but also through the way he or she interacts with colleagues, especially those who do not yet hold powerful positions or might never do so. [Read more…]

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