ETS/SBL Annual Meetings in Boston 2025

We recently spent about a week in Boston during the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), with the Institute of Biblical Research (IBR) meeting in between. Aside from the papers, we enjoyed reconnecting with our colleagues and friends from all over the world and enjoying the beautiful […]

The Top 5 Viewed Blogs in 2024

We at D33 would like to wish our readers a Happy New Year! As the first post of 2025, we wanted to highlight the top five viewed blog posts in 2024. Here they are: Honorable mention: Library of New Testament Greek series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark. This was also a post in 2024, announcing a new […]

Book Announcement: Putting the Pieces Together, ed. Porter, Land, and Dvorak

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 […]

Library of New Testament Greek series by Bloomsbury/T&T Clark

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. […]

ETS/SBL 2023 San Antonio

The bloggers at D33 enjoyed a week at the annual meetings of the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature in San Antonio last week. As usual, we were busy with presenting and listening to papers, perusing the exhibit hall and bookstore, and connecting with colleagues, students, publishers, and others. Stan presented three […]

Book Announcement: Porter, New Testament Theology and the Greek Language

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 […]

Recent Publications in the Linguistic Biblical Studies Series by Brill

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, […]

Book Announcement: Porter, Land, Pang (eds.), “Linguistics and the Bible”

Finally, proceedings from the 2016 Bingham Colloquium, with the theme of “Linguistics and the Bible: Retrospects and Prospects,” has been published: Stanley E. Porter, Christopher D. Land, and Francis G.H. Pang (eds.), Linguistics and the Bible: Retrospects and Prospects (McMaster New Testament Studies Series 9; Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2019). This book contains a collection of essays […]

Philology of Greek as the Most Used Method? Some Thoughts on the Recent SBL Survey

Earlier this year, the Society of Biblical Literature posted the results of a member profile survey they conducted in January 2019. Among other interesting statistics, we wanted to highlight a particular one that stood out for us. While the various expertises of its members were too large and complex to reproduce in the profile summary, […]

Linguistics and New Testament Greek Conference Lectures Online

Recently, the lectures from the Linguistics and New Testament Greek conference in April at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary have been available online. If you haven’t seen these yet, check them out below, beginning with Stan’s lecture on “Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate” (also, see his summary of his lecture here).