Category Archives: Greek Resources

Decker’s Grammar: A Follow Up Part II

Posted on November 14, 2014 by jacobcerone

This post will focus on one of the features of Decker’s Grammar which I have thoroughly appreciated. If you have flipped through the text, you will notice that there are a number of “side-bar” discussions. I have found these discussions, … Continue reading →

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Pleonastic Pronouns: An Example from Genesis 1:11

Posted on November 11, 2014 by jacobcerone

For those of you familiar with Koine Greek, you may have come across the word pleonasm or pleonastic. The word is derived from the Greek term πλεονασμός, which means “superfluous, unnecessary, redundant.” The term is most often applied to participles in New … Continue reading →

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Decker’s Grammar: A Follow Up

Posted on November 1, 2014 by jacobcerone

In my previous post, I mentioned that Decker’s introductory grammar to Koine Greek is large, outweighing even Wallace’s Beyond the Basics. Now that I’ve read the introduction and the first two chapters, I thought I should provide a follow up post … Continue reading →

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A Lesson in “Loving” Too Much

Posted on October 28, 2014 by jacobcerone

Recently, I picked up the Loeb edition of Herodotus’ The Persian Wars on Logos. After all, I got it on prepublication for $4. It would have been crazy not to … In today’s reading, I encountered a narrative about Candaules, Gyges, and … Continue reading →

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Semantic Anachronism: An Example from Acts 7:58

Posted on October 8, 2014 by jacobcerone

Most of you are likely familiar with Carson’s work Exegetical Fallacies. If you are not, then please become acquainted with it. Within Exegetical Fallacies, Carson talks about the fallacy of “semantic anachronism.” Carson writes: This fallacy occurs when a late use of … Continue reading →

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In the Mail: New Addition to My Library

Posted on October 2, 2014 by jacobcerone

The newest addition to my library soon to arrive in the mail is ΑΡΕΙΟΣ ΠΟΤΗΡ καὶ ἡ τοῦ φιλοσ῀οφου λίθος (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone). I needed a bit of fun and relaxing reading material. You can get it … Continue reading →

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Humorous Parsing Error

Posted on September 24, 2014 by jacobcerone

While translating and editing through the Apostolic Fathers General Reader for 1 Clement, I noticed something odd for 1 Clement 56:7. The context for the passage is the fact that God disciplines and instructs those he loves, and then binds … Continue reading →

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QOTD: 1 Clement on Salvation

Posted on September 21, 2014 by jacobcerone

πάντες οὖν ἐδοξάσθησαν καὶ ἐμεγαλύνθησαν οὐ δι᾿ αὐτῶν ἢ τῶν ἔργων αὐτῶν ἢ τῆς δικαιοπραγίας ἧς κατειργάσαντο, ἀλλὰ διὰ τοῦ θελήματος αὐτοῦ.  καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν, διὰ θελήματος αὐτοῦ ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ κληθέντες, οὐ δι᾿ ἑαυτῶν δικαιούμεθα οὐδὲ διὰ τῆς ἡμετέρας … Continue reading →

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QOTD: 1 Clement on the Resurrection

Posted on September 20, 2014 by jacobcerone

ἡμέρα καὶ νὺξ ἀνάστασιν ἡμῖν δηλοῦσιν· κοιμᾶται ἡ νύξ, ἀνίσταται ἡ ἡμέρα· ἡ ἡμέρα ἄπεισιν, νὺξ ἐπέρχεται. Night and day reveal to us the resurrection. The night sleeps; the day arises. The day goes away; night comes.

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Rob Plummer’s Daily Dose of Greek

Posted on September 19, 2014 by jacobcerone

I just saw that Dr. Rob Plummer over at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has a site called “Daily Dose of Greek.” The site it designed to help teach students NT Greek from scratch or to keep up your Greek as … Continue reading →

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