Hebrew OT Syntax | Comments (2)
Scholars involved in the close study of biblical Hebrew know that one of the ongoing debates is whether the biblical Hebrew clause is typically a Verb-Subject-Object (VSO) or Subject-Verb-Object (SVO) order. This search provides the raw data for this question in the Pentateuch.
Here’s the VSO search in Andersen-Forbes (719 clauses in the Pentateuch):
Here’s the SVO […]
MSH @ May 26, 2008
Hebrew OT Syntax | Comments (0)
I was working on an article a couple days ago and had to find out how many times the Hebrew verbקרב (”to draw near, approach; Hiphil - to bring”) was used in legal or ritual contexts that had to do with the Lord or the presence of the Lord. This verb lemma is […]
MSH @ May 23, 2008
Greek NT Syntax | Comments (0)
Rick Brannan posted this interesting piece on how reading the apostolic fathers in Greek stimulated a syntax query in the Greek New Testament. Rick writers:
I’m not writing this post to discuss linkages between the writings of the Apostolic Fathers and the NT (as cool as that would be). Instead, I’m going to shift to syntax. […]
MSH @ May 19, 2008
It ain’t syntax, but it’s cool.
Here’s what innovative markups of even simple “obvious” material like this can do. Logos has created a way to limit database searches in the Greek New Testament to the portions that are considered by the editors to be quotations from the Old Testament. Check it out.
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MSH @ May 14, 2008
Hebrew OT Syntax | Comments (2)
Being able to do syntactical searches in the Hebrew Bible is a tremendous boon to scholarship in the biblical Hebrew language. Scholars are no longer bound to word-level searches that requires dozens and even hundreds of hours of hand-sifting to discern precise word or phrase relationships within results for single word searches. To some this […]
MSH @ May 14, 2008
