Category Archives: Greek

Book Announcement: Into the Deep

Posted on September 30, 2016 by jacobcerone

I’m excited to let you know that my Masters of Theology thesis Into the Deep: A Comparative Discourse Analysis of the Masoretic and Septuagint Versions of Jonah has been published by GlossaHouse. You can get it at a very reasonable price—only … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Greek Pedagogy by Thomas Hudgins

Posted on December 26, 2015 by jacobcerone

My good friend Thomas Hudgins has an excellent post that reflects on Greek pedagogy and the abysmal statistics concerning student knowledge and use of the biblical languages after their course of study. I’d encourage you to check it out and … Continue reading →

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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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Runge on a Roll

Posted on October 28, 2014 by jacobcerone

If you are interested in biblical Greek, you should check out what Steven Runge has been up to these days. Brian Renshaw recently interviewed him about his new High Definition Commentary on Romans. You can check out both parts of … Continue reading →

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The Modern Minister and the Biblical Languages

Posted on October 14, 2014 by jacobcerone

Earlier today I read a great post over at biblioskolex entitled Review: The Minister and His Greek New Testament. The post, as it suggests, is a review of A. T. Robertson’s The Minister and His Greek New Testament, a collection of … 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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