We, Rachel and Michael Aubrey, are giving an academic forum at Dallas International University on Thursday, July 31⋅12:30 – 1:20pm CDT. Title: Greek & Hebrew Prepositions and the Source-Path-Go…| Koine-Greek
Because I aim to win friends and influence people, I have just published a completely uncontroversial article on Matthew 1:25 and the issue of Mary’s perpetual virginity. It’s freely av…| Koine-Greek
Dallas International University (DIU) has announced their new masters degree program that combines the biblical languages and linguistics in one place: MA in Biblical Languages and Linguistics.| Koine-Greek
When we talk about the semantics of prepositional phrases, we are talking about a specific kind of conventionalized pattern. Conventional patterns are arbitrary in the sense that they are not predictable from one language to another. But in another way, they are nevertheless motivated (Sweetser 1990). There is a reason they occur as they do. Basic cognitive processes influence how different prepositions extend from spatial meanings to more abstract ones.| Koine-Greek
Jonathan Robie contacted me this morning to let me know that yesterday Carl Conrad passed away. There won’t be a memorial service, but if you have an memories or tributes to Carl, there is a …| Koine-Greek
“It is no exaggeration to say that more has been learned about languages in the past twenty-five years […]| Koine-Greek
For anyone interested in linguistics and the Septuagint (and even a bit of Neo-Aramaic), this article was just published in Tyndale Bulletin. And it’s open access! Here’s the abstract: …| Koine-Greek
Last year, we shared our SBL paper from the Cognitive Linguistics session, "Constructions and the Source-Path-Goal Schema". ventually, we realized that it was more practical to just upload the video as a whole. We only realized that we never shared the full video until today when a friend expressed appreciation to us for our paper. So without further ado, Constructions and the Source—Path—Goal Schema in its totality:| Koine-Greek
Rachel and I just submitted our manuscript of Greek prepositions in the New Testament: A Cognitive-Functional Description, 2nd edition! We all love a good grammar or dictionary! If you work in Biblical or Postclassical Greek, you should absolutely have a copy of BDAG and probably a copy of von Siebenthal (2019) or Whitacre (2021), too! Still, there's so much more to said about prepositions in this works! We want readers to have a full picture of how our work on prepositions relates to standar...| Koine-Greek
All major English translations in Acts 9:36 completely fail to communicate what the author of Acts is trying to do here: tell his readers that the name 'Tabitha' is a Aramaic word (טַבְיְתָא) that means 'gazelle'. Luke's audiences doesn't want to know that two names correspond in an unknown way. Luke's audience wants to know the meaning of Tabitha...| Koine-Greek
