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The Granville-Sharp Rule Meets Syntactical Searching

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Most students of New Testament Greek are familiar with the Granville-Sharp rule, as it always comes up in a discussion of how the Greek New Testament casts Jesus as God in certain passages–most specifically John 1:1-3.  Granville-Sharp can be taken to a whole new level with today’s “above the word level” searching in a syntactically-tagged […]

MSH @ May 11, 2008

New Testament Greek Syntactic Force Annotations for Every Word of the Greek NT

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Here’s a short description (with video at the link) of how every word of the Greek New Testament is being annotated for syntactic force. This is truly a benchmark project in the history of the study of New Testament Greek.

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MSH @ May 11, 2008

Adverbial KAI as thematic addition

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I am working on the introduction to the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament, describing what I am calling thematic addition. Here is the definition from the glossary.
Definition
The use of various means to create a connection between two things, essentially ‘adding’ the current element to some preceding parallel element. The most common means for accomplishing this […]

srunge @ May 9, 2008

NT Greek Syntax vs. Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses

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John 10:30-33 has an interesting slice of dialogue between Jesus and certain adversarial Jews:
30 I and my Father are one.” 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, “Many good works have I shown you from my Father; for which of those works do you stone me?” 33 […]

MSH @ May 8, 2008

Greek Syntax: Article Introducting Prepositional Phrase

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Rick Brannan shows us how to use the The OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament. Now, you would think searching for an article that introduces a prepositional phrase would be something you could do with ordinary Bible software, where you can search for individual words and parts of speech in proximity to one another. Well, […]

MSH @ May 7, 2008