Volume 27 of the Linguistic Biblical Studies series published by Brill is officially out now! The volume is edited by Stanley E. Porter, Zachary K. Dawson, and Ryder A. Wishart, entitled The Literary-Linguistic Analysis of the Bible: The Enduring Legacies of Russian Formalism and the Prague Linguistic Circle, and explores various concepts in modern linguistics […]
Category Archives: Greek linguistics
We call your attention to a recently published book involving both D33 bloggers, Stan as a co-editor and contributor, and Dave as a contributor: Porter, Stanley E., Christopher D. Land, and James D. Dvorak, eds. Putting the Pieces Together: Formalizing Units and Structures in the Biblical Languages. MNTS 11. Eugene, OR: MDC Press/Pickwick, 2024. This […]
I came across a statement in a book that my small group is using at my church. I won’t mention the book, so as not to detract from its overall message (as I think it is helpful overall, which is why we’re using it). However, this statement is similar to other statements I have read […]
We call attention to a new series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, called the Library of New Testament Greek (LNTG). LNTG complements and supplements other academic book series in New Testament Greek linguistics, such as Linguistic Biblical Studies (Brill) and Studies in Biblical Greek (Peter Lang), among other venues where studies on Greek linguistics can be found. […]
One of the last awaited volumes in the Baylor Handbook on the Greek New Testament series has been out for a short while now, co-authored by the two D33 bloggers, Stanley Porter and David Yoon, on Paul’s letter to the Romans. The overview on the website states: In Romans, Stanley E. Porter and David I. […]
The long-awaited commentary on the Pastoral Epistles by Stanley E. Porter (Baker Academic) is finally out. The overview on the website states: Leading New Testament scholar Stanley Porter offers a comprehensive commentary on the Pastoral Epistles that features rigorous biblical scholarship and emphasizes Greek language and linguistics. This book breaks new ground in its interpretation […]
We recently had a question posed to us at D33 and we thought we would share it and our answer with you. The person asked about the following line of argumentation for prohibiting women from teaching in the church. She heard it claimed that the word for “teacher” in Greek (διδάσκαλος) never appears in the […]
We are announcing a recently published book by Stanley E. Porter, New Testament Theology and the Greek Language: A Linguistic Reconceptualization (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022). One might wonder what theology has to do with linguistics, especially since James Barr has warned us about theologizing Greek and Hebrew meanings. This, however, is not what Porter […]
Linguistic Biblical Studies is one of the (if not the) leading monograph series that publishes in biblical linguistics, focusing on linguistically informed study of the Bible in its original languages. A variety of approaches are welcomed for submission and published in the series: “syntax, semantics, pragmatics, discourse analysis and text linguistics, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, […]
We are announcing a new book that is scheduled to be published this summer (18 Aug 2021), James Barr Assessed: Evaluating His Legacy over the Last Sixty Years (ed. Stanley E. Porter; BINS 192; Leiden, Brill). The blurb states: James Barr is a widely recognized name in biblical studies, even if he is still best […]
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