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Koine Greek

Wes Huff: What ‘Arsenokoitai’ Really Means in the Bible

By Filings on Tue, 07/14/26
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“Debates over biblical language tend to come back around because the underlying question isn’t really about Greek roots. It’s about whether the Bible’s teaching on sexuality can be reinterpreted to fit modern assumptions. Huff pushed back on that framing directly” - C.Leaders

Amazing Tool for Helping Your Greek!

By Filings on Fri, 12/19/25
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“Koine Guide is an online training platform for anyone who wants to actually keep their New Testament Greek. It lets you translate through the Greek New Testament one verse at a time, take an optional parsing quiz, and then submit your own translation.” - Ward on Words

The Best Septuagint (LXX) Translations in Logos: A Comparison Guide

By Filings on Wed, 09/03/25
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“In this blog post, I’ll introduce you to the SAAS, and I’ll also compare it to some of the other translations of the LXX we have available.” - Word by Word

Life-Changing Bible Study Lessons from a Nerdy Grad Class

By Filings on Mon, 08/18/25
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“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

5 Reasons to Study Greek

By Filings on Tue, 07/01/25
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“Learning biblical Greek will require some drudgery but as they say no pain no gain.” - Ward on Words

Answers to the Jehovah's Witnesses from a Greek Teacher

By Filings on Mon, 04/14/25
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Mark Ward talks with Darryl Berling of Biblical Mastery Academy. - Ward on Words

Archaeologists discover 'very rare' ancient inscription paraphrasing Psalm 86

By Filings on Tue, 10/03/23
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Inscription: “Jesus Christ, guard me, for I am poor and needy” Psalm 86 (NIV) “Hear me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Guard my life, for I am faithful to you” - CPost

How to Deal with Inspired Ambiguities in the New Testament

By Filings on Tue, 11/01/22
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“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 Tongue, Evil, and Defilement (James 3:6)

By TylerR on Mon, 10/02/17
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William Mounce: Do we really believe that the angry words, the slanderous words, that so often come out of the human mouth truly make that person unacceptable to God, make him or her a defilement?

Are Metaphors Inspired?

By TylerR on Mon, 08/14/17
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William Mounce: I have been thinking a lot about some of the general issues of translation, and one of the points that keeps coming up is the issue of metaphors. I would like your opinion … I am asking if the inspired authors chose to use a metaphor to convey meaning, are we required to use a metaphor?

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