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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Sep 8

Hi @verbingnouns.bsky.social could we be added to your linguistics feed?

We just posted about Julia Falks monograph on women in the LSA in the early 20th century.

Cheers!

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Sep 8

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Sep 8

Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited.
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Edith Claflin, the Greek linguist you’ve never heard of

Over the past year, I’ve been off-and-on reading Julia Falk’s Women, Language and Linguistics: Three American Stories from the First Half of the Twentieth Century. It’s a superb b…

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jul 18

Academic Forum: The Source-Path-Goal Schema in Bible Translation

We, Rachel and Michael Aubrey, are giving an academic forum at Dallas International University on Thursday, July 31⋅12:30 – 1:20pm CDT. Title: Greek & Hebrew Prepositions and the Source-Path-Goal Schema in Bible Translation Abstract:…

Academic Forum: The Source-Path-Goal Schema in Bible Translation

We, Rachel and Michael Aubrey, are giving an academic forum at Dallas International University on Thursday, July 31⋅12:30 – 1:20pm CDT. Title: Greek & Hebrew Prepositions and the Source-Path-Goal Schema in Bible Translation Abstract: What do constructions like "from strength to strength", "from glory to glory", or "from faith to faith" mean? Come explore their cognitive basis. The SOURCE-PATH-GOAL (SPG) image schema constitutes a common meaning structure across languages that is grounded in our shared embodied human experience (Lakoff 1987, Hampe and Grady 2005).

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jul 18

Is the Greek grammar of Matthew 1:25 consistent with the perpetual virginity of Mary?

Prepositions and Perpetual Virginity: Matthew 1:25

Because I aim to win friends and influence people, I have just published a completely uncontroversial article on Matthew 1:25 and the issue of Mary's perpetual virginity. It's freely available here. This paper is basically an accident: I was studying a change in LXX Genesis 8:7 where the translator (against the MT) inserted the word until, changed the verb, and then placed it under negation to produce an actualization inference that the raven eventually returned to Noah.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · May 20

"Matthew 1:25 says nothing about whether Joseph and Mary had conjugal relations."

Is this true? No. It's not.

Prepositions and Perpetual Virginity: Matthew 1:25

Because I aim to win friends and influence people, I have just published an uncontroversial article on the grammar of Matthew 1:25 and the issue of Mary's perpetual virginity. It's freely available here. Many thanks to the editors and peer reviewers for helpful comments and suggestions. This paper is basically an accident: I found a plus in LXX Gen. 8…

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Apr 24

Dallas International University (DIU) has announced their new masters degree program that combines the biblical languages and linguistics in one place: MA in Biblical Languages and Linguistics. #biblicalgreek #biblicalhebrew

MA Degree in Biblical Languages and Linguistics

Dallas International University (DIU) has announced their new masters degree program that combines the biblical languages and linguistics in one place: MA in Biblical Languages and Linguistics.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Apr 21

I cannot believe how hard it is to find ἀνά meaning 'up' in postclassical Greek.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Apr 8

Things have been really quiet lately at Koine-Greek.com, because ... reasons. I'll talk about those soon. But I am working on some new pedagogy material for teaching (and learning) Greek prepositions. #biblicalgreek

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Mar 19

Metaphors used in SOURCE-PATH-GOAL Constructions:
PURPOSES ARE DESTINATIONS
ἄρτον [ἐξ οὐρανοῦ] ἔδωκας αὐτοῖς [εἰςσιτοδοτείαν αὐτῶν]You gave them bread [from heaven][for their famine] (Esdr B 19:15)
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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Mar 19

Metaphors used in SOURCE-PATH-GOAL Constructions:
CAUSES ARE SOURCES
ὁ φεύγων [ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ φόβου]ἐνπεσεῖται [εἰς τὸν βόθυνον]
He who flees [from the face of fear] willfall [into the pit] (Jer 31:44).
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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Feb 24

This is basically out sentiment. Some of the replies we received:

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Feb 23

Yesterday, I posted an announcement on Twitter that I was no longer going to be using twitter for sharing Koine-Greek.com stuff and that everyone could either find us on FB or here on Blusky. Man, people were not happy with that.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Feb 23

Greek prepositions as conventional patterns

When we talk about the semantics of prepositional phrases, we are talking about a specific kind of conventionalized pattern. Conventional patterns are arbitrary in the sense that they are not predictable from one language to another. But in another way,…

Greek prepositions as conventional patterns

When we talk about the semantics of prepositional phrases, we are talking about a specific kind of conventionalized pattern. Conventional patterns are arbitrary in the sense that they are not predictable from one language to another. But in another way, they are nevertheless motivated (Sweetser 1990). There is a reason they occur as they do. Basic cognitive processes influence how different prepositions extend from spatial meanings to more abstract ones.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Feb 21

Carl Conrad passed away 2/20/25

Jonathan Robie contacted me this morning to let me know that yesterday Carl Conrad passed away. There won't be a memorial service, but if you have an memories or tributes to Carl, there is a forum thread at B-Greek dedicated to his memory. I encourage you to share…

Carl Conrad passed away 2/20/25

Jonathan Robie contacted me this morning to let me know that yesterday Carl Conrad passed away. There won't be a memorial service, but if you have an memories or tributes to Carl, there is a forum thread at B-Greek dedicated to his memory. I encourage you to share any impact he had on your Greek education there. Tributes to Carl Conrad…

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

Yes! This is exactly the solution.

Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

No. You can't. And you can't do it with ὑπέρ either.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

Our Greek dictionaries, with their glosses, suggest that the paraphrases are the meaning of the preposition. But think about how ridiculous that is. Can you recreate the meaning of the English preposition 'over' from these glosses???

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

All of these prepositional phrases have non-'over' paraphrases.

● Mary held the flashlight over her head (=above her head).
● The mountain towered over the village (= higher than the village).
● The bus drove us over the border (=across the border).
● The vulture flew over the desert (=above and across the desert).
● He lives over the hill from me (=beyond the hill).
● He is over a hundred years old (=more than a hundred years old).
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one (= compared to the blue one).
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem (=because of the chess problem).
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner (=about and because of the cost of dinner).

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

But let's talk about English 'over'. All of these are examples of English 'over' usage, both spatial and abstract.

● Mary held the flashlight over her head.
● The mountain towered over the village.
● The bus drove us over the border.
● The vulture flew over the desert.
● He lives over the hill from me.
● He is over a hundred years old.
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one.
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem.
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner.

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Koine Greek: Studies in Greek Language & Linguistics @koine-greek.com · Jan 17

We could repeat this for basically every Greek prepositions.
#biblicalgreek thread.
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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Jan 8

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Jan 12

WE ABSOLUTELY KNOW HOW ANCIENT GREEK WAS PRONOUNCED!!!

Sarah M 🫖 @lore.house · Jan 12

Louder for the people in the back.

Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Jan 12

Regarding Wes Huff words on Ancient Greek on that one podcast:

We *absolutely* know how Ancient Greek was pronounced. We know how it was pronounced in multiple dialects. We know how it was pronounced across multiple centuries. There is no debate on this.
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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Jan 12

Regarding Wes Huff words on Ancient Greek on that one podcast:

We *absolutely* know how Ancient Greek was pronounced. We know how it was pronounced in multiple dialects. We know how it was pronounced across multiple centuries. There is no debate on this.
#biblicalgreek

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Mike Aubrey @mikeaubrey.bsky.social · Jan 8

#biblicalgreek

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