Category Archives: Greek Resources

Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek

Posted on January 6, 2014 by jacobcerone

Since there is a deluge of reviews of Constantine Campbell’s Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek in the biblioblogger world, just take a look at this list compiled by Koinonia, I will not post a full review of the book. Instead, I want … Continue reading →

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Memorizing Philippians: An Unexpected Downside

Posted on January 4, 2014 by jacobcerone

As I continue to progress in my goal of memorizing the book of Philippians in Greek (I added three more verses yesterday on my drive up to Virginia), I noticed something unexpected. My mind was “chunking” the text. Those of … Continue reading →

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Recitation of Philippians 1:1-11

Posted on January 2, 2014 by jacobcerone

It took a bit longer than I would have liked to memorize the next three verses. This had more to do with my discipline than it does with their difficulty. Nevertheless, it is done. A video of my recitation of … Continue reading →

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Translation Tuesday: Chrysostom Week 1

Posted on December 31, 2013 by jacobcerone

Today is the beginning of a year-long series I will call “Translation Tuesday.” The goal: to translate through John Chrysostom’s 13 homilies on Philippians. We will use v. 62 of Migne’s text, which can be found here. I will use … Continue reading →

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Memorizing Greek Philippians

Posted on December 20, 2013 by jacobcerone

About a month ago, one of my Greek Grammar students asked me about memorizing scripture. He asked if I memorized scripture in Greek and Hebrew, or an English translation. Much to his disappointment, and mine for that matter, I answered, … Continue reading →

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Biblical Words and Their Meaningshttp://amzn.to/1Po2nqk

Posted on December 18, 2013 by jacobcerone

For those interested in Semantics of New Testament Greek, there are three works with which you should be familiar: James Barr’s Semantics of Biblical Language, J.P. Louw’s Semantics of New Testament Greek, and Silva’s Biblical Words and Their Meanings. Lucky for you, Silva’s book … Continue reading →

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The Tyranny of Spiritual Love

Posted on December 16, 2013 by jacobcerone

I thought I might torture you all with some more from Chyrsostom. This quote is a comment on Philippians 1:7. Καὶ τί θαυμαστὸν, εἰ ἐν τῳ δεσμωτηρίῳ εἶχεν αὐτούς; Οὐδὲ γὰρ κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν, φησὶ, καθ᾽ ὃν εἰσῄειν εἰς … Continue reading →

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Learning Biblical Greek

Posted on December 6, 2013 by jacobcerone

As a part of my job as Dr. Black’s Research Assistant, I am occasionally asked to respond to emails inquiring about Greek resources and advice on how to further one’s development in the language. Here is a portion of the … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing Chrysosotom

Posted on December 4, 2013 by jacobcerone

For a long time I have thought it would be a great thing to have the Migne Greek Father and Latin Father series digitized, tagged, and translated. It was brought to my attention that Logos plans on releasing the Greek … Continue reading →

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Chrysostom’s Homilies on Philippians in a Year

Posted on December 3, 2013 by jacobcerone

I plan on reading through Chrysostom’s homilies on Philippians in a year. You can join me if you want. Over the next month, I will be hard at work typing up Migne’s text of these homilies, and dividing them up … Continue reading →

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