“Enter my classroom with me as I share some of the lessons I learned in
that class. Lessons that have changed my life as a student and teacher of
scripture. I will use technical terminology in this video, but I will explain it or at least explain why I’m not explaining it.” - Ward on Words
“I suspect that the reason the ‘Greek is super-precise’ myth hangs around is that in some quarters it is embraced as part of the doctrine of Scripture.” - Word by Word
“The professor was reading and translating aloud from the Greek. When he got to the last phrase in the verse, he started crying as he repeated ‘kai esmen’ several times…. The phrase is translated ‘and that is what we are’ ” - Eric Geiger
Mondays with Mounce: Why did Mary keep the perfume? An ellipsis is when words are left out, and the assumption is that the context is sufficient to fill in the gaps. It especially happens in the second of two parallel thoughts, words from the first assumed in the second. But John 12:7 gives us a good example of ellipsis when there is no parallel.
Have you ever wanted to learn Greek? A good number of Bible students and faithful church attenders have given a yes to this question. But these same people are often perplexed as to how they can actually learn Greek, Some may find themselves overwhelmed in a intorductory Greek class and conclude that it will have to always be “just Greek to me.”
