Kevilex Website for Reading Greek

This looks interesting for those who might be, er, interested…

Kevilex is a free online Greek reader (which includes the New Testament among other ancient documents), which allows you to click any word in the text to get its lexicon entry and a full morphology, and enables you to track your learning of vocabulary.

There is a short demo video here.

Ink 2 (Spring 2019)

The second issue of ink, published by Tyndale House, Cambridge, is now available, this one exploring ‘the benefits of reading the Bible in its original languages’.

UK residents can sign up here to receive issues through the post, but the publication is also available as a pdf here.

Robert Plummer on Matthew 28:19

In Matthew 28:19, does Jesus command his disciples, ‘Go, and make disciples’ or ‘As you are going, make disciples’?

For his weekend edition of Daily Dose of Greek, Robert Plummer explores an example from David A. Croteau’s recently-published, Urban Legends of the New Testament: 40 Common Misconceptions (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2015), in this case the legend that ‘“Go” is Not a Command in the Great Commission’.

The upshot is that while ‘make disciples’ is the stand-out imperative in the verse, the participle ‘go’ (along with ‘baptising’ and ‘teaching’) still carries an imperatival sense.

Robert Plummer on the Etymological Fallacy

For his weekend editions of Daily Dose of Greek, Robert Plummer has promised a short series on common word study fallacies, beginning with the etymological fallacy, the view that the origin and history provides deeper insight into its meaning.

Robert Plummer on Philemon 10-11

In the ever-helpful weekend video from Daily Dose of Greek, Robert L. Plummer looks at Paul’s play on Greek words meaning ‘useful’ and ‘useless’ in verses 10-11 of Philemon.

Robert Plummer on Philemon 5

In the special weekend video from Daily Dose of Greek, Robert L. Plummer looks at an instance of chiasm in Philemon 5, not readily visible in the NIV of that verse – ‘because I hear about your love for all his holy people and your faith in the Lord Jesus’ – but at least apparent in the Greek text.

Robert L. Plummer on ἀγαπάω and φιλέω in John 21:15-17

This weekend’s Daily Dose of Greek video from Robert L. Plummer looks at why we shouldn’t read too much into the variation between ἀγαπάω and φιλέω in the exchange between Jesus and Peter in John 21:15-17.

Robert L. Plummer on John 13:1 and 19:30

There’s another helpful weekend video here from Robert L. Plummer, looking at the literary bracket between τέλος (telos) in John 13:1 (‘he loved them to the end’) and τετέλεσται (tetelestai) in 19:40 (‘It is finished’).

Robert Plummer on σπλάγχνα in Philemon

I’ve been following and enjoying Daily Dose of Greek videos since I posted about it here.

In today’s special weekend video, Robert L. Plummer looks at the three uses of σπλάγχνα (splanchna) in Philemon – which I’d not spotted before, and which is especially interesting as the word is fairly rare in the New Testament, being used on only 11 occasions.

Daily Dose of Greek

Robert Plummer, Professor of New Testament as Southern Seminary in Louisville has launched Daily Dose of Greek, designed ‘to provide ongoing accountability to busy pastors to read Greek daily and progress in their ability’, but which will undoubtedly be of value to others too.

Those who sign up receive via email a two-minute video every day for five days a week, in which Plummer talks through a single Greek verse (currently heading through 1 John 1).

The website also contains 25 short videos on learning Greek, along with a section of resources.