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The Greek Powerhouse Your Study is Missing

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Let’s talk about Greek. And what you need to master it. To gain fluency.

Study. Years of hard labor bent over grammars and ancient texts. Speaking Ancient Greek with strangers on Skype. Dreaming in Koine.

Right. Perhaps mastery at that level isn’t a priority. Exegesis is.

Good. Then I want your participation in a project, one that will facilitate your exegesis.

The Brill Greek Reference Collection is a high-level academic powerhouse for anybody working in this, the language of the gods, the philosophers, Josephus, the New Testament.

This 5-volume collection is currently in pre-pub, and includes both:

  • The 3-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics
  • The 2-volume Etymological Dictionary of Greek

I highly recommend that you add these elite resources to your digital research library. To posses them in hardcover sounds lovely, but, really?

Don’t let the Brill Greek Reference Collection molder on your shelf, become a display piece, sold off in a garage sale when you die.

Possess the fully functional, fully searchable powerhouse in its absolutely best format: in your Logos digital research library.

Keep your bookshelves for Harry Potter.

The pre-pub price of the Brill Greek Reference Collection is currently $499.99, compared to the retail digital price of $899.99 and the retail print price of $1,709.

I’ll let you do the math, but those are huge savings. Take advantage.

And help get this powerful collection to publication today.

8 Features Scholars Will Appreciate in Logos 8

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With the launch of Logos 8 come several new features that will appeal to biblical scholars. These features range from various ways to visually work the biblical text to building your own morphological queries.

Check out these eight Logos 8 features and updates that working academics will appreciate: [Read more…]

Original Death: The History of Exegeting Genesis 3 and Romans 5

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Painting by Gustav Klimt, “Death and Life.” Source: Google Art Project.

Essay by Genevieve Scheele*

Introduction

The history of biblical exegesis and hermeneutics is not without controversy, and the apostle Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is no exception. It has more allusions and quotes from the Hebrew Bible than any other New Testament work, but is not always treated in its Israelite context. References to Genesis play a particularly important role in the core section of Romans 5–8, featuring hamartiology and justification. This essay will explore that relationship, also in conversation with the Church Fathers. [Read more…]

Design Showcase: The Tyndale House Greek New Testament

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Photography by Tavis Bohlinger*

Welcome to the first in a new series on the Logos Academic Blog (theLAB), in which we discuss everything but the actual content of a book. Design Showcase is a series of interviews with both publishers and designers of the best academic resources in the world of biblical scholarship. In this first of the series, we’re going to take a look at the Tyndale House Greek New Testament, or THGNT. [Read more…]

10 Years in the Making: Brill’s EDG in Digital Format

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Brill volumes have a special place in my heart. Not only are they aesthetically pleasing as bound physical monographs, with utmost attention to detail in their craftsmanship of cloth-bound covers and gold-letter embossing, but the aesthetics also extend to the written text. [Read more…]

A Fresh Approach to New Testament Scribal Habits

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by Alan Taylor Farnes

In 2007, James R. Royse published his exceptional study on the scribal habits of six early New Testament papyri. In his work, Royse revolutionized text critics’ understanding of the text-critical canon lectio brevior potior or, “the shorter reading is preferred”1 by demonstrating that the scribes he studied tended to omit more than they added. In its place he coined a new canon which he called lectio longior potior or, “the longer reading is preferred.” [Read more…]

Conference Alert: “Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate”

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If you haven’t already heard, there is an exciting conference taking place next year (April 2019) at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

Some heavy-hitters in the Greek linguistics debate will be present, including Logos’ very own Michael Aubrey and Steve Runge. 

The official announcement is below; hope to see you there. [Read more…]

On Mastering Koine Greek: A Response to Bohlinger and Nguyen

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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…]

Four Reasons to Master Koine (and to Leave Attic Alone)

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Learning to read Koine (or biblical) Greek is essential, if you are training for church ministry, an academically focused career in biblical studies, or simply as a means to reading the New Testament in its original language.

Even while I was in seminary, however, there was pressure to learn to read Attic, or Classical Greek. I was inspired to expand my narrow horizons beyond the NT, to begin reading Homer, Sophocles, and Plato. Indeed, even on this blog, we recently posted an article encouraging people to read widely throughout the corpus of Classical Greek literature. [Read more…]

The Influence of the LXX

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by Tavis Bohlinger*

Yesterday we celebrated International LXX Day by publishing an essay on The Origin of the LXX. Today we are pleased to present the second half of that essay, because, well, we just love the Septuagint here at Logos (this proves it).

Plus, this gives us the chance to extend the 30% discount on select LXX resources, so you can boost your Logos digital library (see list below; if you don’t yet have Logos Bible Software, check this out). Don’t forget that today is the last day of the sale. [Read more…]