After casting an unclean spirit out of a boy, Jesus takes his disciples away privately. Where does Jesus direct their attention after a triumphant encounter? Surprisingly, he points them to his o...
I’ve been enjoying teaching through the Gospel of Mark in an ongoing Webinar series called “Translation Notes.” We focus especially on the words and grammar of the Greek text, trying to ...
A new integrated trio of Koine Greek resources just came out in Accordance. I review them in the was-going-to-be-short-but-ended-up-longer video below. Product page links follow. Curious to hear,...
Last week’s Hebrew Bible lectionary gave us the beautiful Zephaniah 3:14-20. There is an interesting variant in the Septuagint reading of verse 15. Hebrew לֹא־תִֽירְאִ֥י רָ֖ע ...
https://abramkj.com/2021/12/15/fear-no-evil-or-see-no-evil-one-way-to-preach-a-textual-variant/
Introduction Takamitsu Muraoka’s work is a gift to all who would read the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible. When I first began to love reading the Septuagint, T. Muraoka’s Two-Way Index ...
Lent can help us recalibrate our anthropology: καὶ γὰρ ὁ ἄνθρωπος τῆς εἰρήνης μου, ἐφ̓ ὃν ἤλπισα,ὁ ἐσθίων ἄρτ�...
Accordance Bible has put its Göttingen Septuagint on sale, at its lowest price ever. There are 19 volumes, which span 34 Septuagint books. As Brian Davidson notes, Logos has five LXX volumes not...
https://abramkj.com/2020/02/14/gottingen-septuagint-in-accordance-lowest-sale-price/
Earlier in 2019 Zondervan released updated editions of Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar (Pratico and Van Pelt, now in its 3rd edition) and Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Mounce, now in its 4t...
https://abramkj.com/2019/10/30/whats-new-in-mounces-greek-grammar/
There are already good introductions to the Septuagint: see Will Ross’s list here. I’ve reviewed a couple of them: T. Michael Law’s When God Spoke Greek and Mogens Müller’s First Bible o...
https://abramkj.com/2019/08/22/new-and-very-big-introduction-to-the-septuagint/
Zondervan has just released updated editions of Basics of Biblical Hebrew Grammar and Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar, as well as related aids for students working through those textbooks. Behol...
https://abramkj.com/2019/03/11/in-the-mail-updated-zondervan-greek-and-hebrew-grammars/