Tobin PerryWhat is hermeneutics? Hermeneutics is any effort to interpret the meaning of communication, particularly communication that is being interpreted in a different cultural context. In the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, Bernard C. Lategan says about...
Guest Author"There are just enough gaps in the story to make it a dangerous one, as the interpreter is tempted to retell it with commentary on Jonah’s psychology."
Brandon RappuhnWe’re proud to announce our new Grammars Collection—a steeply discounted package of 94 biblical-language grammars to help students and scholars unpack any syntactic or semantic challenge in the study of the biblical text. For merely $8 per grammar...
Rick BrannanHave you had some instruction in Greek? A year in seminary or college awhile back, or you worked through a grammar on your own or in a group? Or you've just picked up stuff as you've studied? Maybe you feel pretty good about what you've learned so...
Most folks who have been around Logos for awhile know that I'm pretty excited about the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. I mean, I am spending a large chunk of my "free" time working on an interlinear of the Greek portions of these writings (it's...
Did you think of Paul’s letter to the Romans when you read the title to this post? Chances are you did, but that’s not the letter I was thinking of. Did you know that there was at least one other letter written to the Romans in the early...
This is the third in a series of three posts called “Syntax Searching for Everyone”. In this video, we’ll peek at Syntax Search Templates. What is a Syntax Search Template? Well, if you watched the video on Query Forms from the...
This is the second in a series of three posts called “Syntax Searching for Everyone”. In this video, we’ll peek at syntax search Query Forms. What, you don’t know about Query Forms? You didn’t know that you can just...
Syntax searching is one of the coolest features of Logos Bible Software 4. I mean, to search and find where something is the subject of a clause, or the object of a clause? So, where, say, Peter does something (subject) or where something is done to...
Awhile back in the Logos newsgroups, someone asked this question: I am trying to do a search of the Greek where you have a controlling preposition followed by two nouns joined by a conjunction. I am sure it can be done, but I am not experienced...
Phil GonsToday’s guest post is from Dr. Steve Runge, a scholar-in-residence at Logos Bible Software and author of the Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament and Lexham High Definition New Testament. I have been reading through one of my seminary...
Over on his Exegetica Digita blog, Mike Heiser has been doing some tutorial videos on the Andersen-Forbes syntax resources. The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Text The Hebrew Bible: Andersen-Forbes Analyzed Phrase Marker Analysis A...
At Exegetica Digita, one of Mike Heiser’s blogs, he looks at John 10:30-33 and what light our syntax databases shed on the proper translation of the clause at the end of verse 33, "because you, being a man, make yourself God" (in...
First, a teaser. Here’s where we’re going: Mixing syntactic force and lemmas in a Bible Speed Search?! [Maybe you just want to cut to the chase and watch the video instead of read. That’s fine, go right ahead! — RB] The Lexham...
The Logos syntax databases and resources have revolutionized advanced searching and analysis of the Old and New Testaments in their original languages. As with most powerful tools, there is a bit of a learning curve to using them effectively. One of...
I’ve blogged a few times about 1Th 4.16 and the prepositional phrase εν Χριστω (see here and here). But there’s more to talk about. One thing that could be handy is searching for when the prepositional object (Χριστω) is articular, and...
A few days back, I posted an article about 1Th 4.16, specifically on using syntax searching to find all instances of the prepositional phrase εν Χριστω. And that is helpful, but it isn’t the whole story. Today’s article will build on...
[NB: The update at the bottom of the article is new; if you’ve found this article useful please review it. Thanks! — Rick] The most recent issue of the SBL’s Journal of Biblical Literature (vol 126, no 3) has an article entitled...
If you will be attending the SBL national conference in San Diego next week, you might be interested in some of these additional sessions that Logos is sponsoring. You’ll see new stuff we’ve been working on (like the Qumran Biblical Dead...
I was working my way through the first portion of 1Ti 6.10 the other day. This is the well-known clause, “For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils” (1Ti 6.10a, ESV). I was specifically looking at “… of all kinds...
For the past two summers, the church that I attend has had a series called “Summer of Psalms” as the basis of its evening services during the summer. They have someone (not the pastors) do a teaching from a psalm. It’s pretty fun...
In last week Friday’s post, I blogged about something that J.H. Moulton calls the “Pindaric Construction”. In a comment to that post, David Pereira noted: The other cases I would question are those in which the “singular...
I don’t know offhand how many have installed the latest beta (3.0e RC 2 as of the writing of this post) of the LDLS; and I have even less of an idea of how many of those users have explored the Syntax Search dialog. But we added two new...
Anyone who has taken a science class has likely had an introduction to the basic concept of an atom (the smallest particle still holding the properties of an element). This person also likely has an understanding that molecules are built up of atoms...
The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament (henceforth Lexham SGNT) is an ongoing project here at Logos. When v3.0 was released, a preliminary version of the Lexham SGNT, covering Hebrews through Jude, was included in the various Scholar’s...
If you’ve read this blog for awhile, you know that sometimes I just notice things as I’m reading through the text. This time, it was a syntactic structure used in 1Ti 6.3, shown below in the ESV NT Reverse Interlinear: The structure...
Here’s a fun syntax search. For some reason I thought of searching the New Testament for places where body parts — hands, feet, heads, etc. — served as the subject of a clause. You know, things like Mt 17.2: And he was transfigured before...
I received an email from one of y’all with some further questions about word groups, head terms, clausal hierarchy and syntax searching. Rather than writing something, it was easier to make a video to point out some of the different ways one...
Read the first five posts in this series: Intro | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4. 2Ti 4.1 offers an example of the Charge Form. Charge Form in 2Ti 4.1 The discussion of this form is very much preliminary because Smith’s recent book, Timothy’s Task...
Read the first four posts in this series: Intro | 1 | 2 | 3. Php 4.10 offers an example of the Joy Expression. Joy Expression in Php 4.10 Description of Form As with the Request/Petition form, Mullins has questioned if such a thing as the “Joy...