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The Contours of the Land in Israel's History
The Land of Palestine
The land of Palestine took its name from the Philistines (the Pelishtim in Hebrew) who settled along the Mediterranean coast from Joppa to Gaza about 1300–12...
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Was Jesus In A Lonely, Deserted, or Uninhabited Region? (Mark 1:45) — Mondays with Mounce 258
The sermon yesterday was on the need for solitude, planned margin. Always a good reminder for those of us who tend to define ourselves by w...
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Mounce Archive 29 — Money Bags (Luke 10:4; 12:33; 22:35, 36)
Jesus says, “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out” (NIV; cf. NRSV, NLT, NET).
I ...
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Can a word be a punctuation mark? (Matt 1:18) - Mondays with Mounce 270
This is perhaps a little picky post, but it does illustrate why a word-for-word translation is not always helpful.
Matthew begins with his g...
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Mounce Archive 23 - Missing Verses
Bill Mounce is traveling this month and is taking a break from his weekly column on biblical Greek until April. Meanwhile, we’ve hand-picked...
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Common Sense to the Rescue (James 3:7) - Mondays with Mounce 282
I came across an interesting Greek conundrum in small group tonight. James is talking about the tongue and its power to destroy.
He writes, ...
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Hearing and Doing (James 1:23-24) - Mondays with Mounce 279
Anyone involved in translation knows that it is almost impossible to hit the nail directly on the head, so to speak. We either say too littl...
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Does the Order of Phrases Matter? (Rom 1:5) - Mondays with Mounce 276
One of the harder things to do in translation is line up the phrases properly. Since English uses sequence and proximity, related phrases ne...
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Can “Yes” and “Although” mean the same thing (Rom 1:21)? - Mondays with Mounce 269
Paul is arguing that all the world clearly understands God’s invisible attributes, and therefore they are without excuse for not responding ...
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The Vanilla δέ (Matt 28:16) - Mondays with Mounce 266
The final sequence of events in Matthew 28 raises an interesting question about the δέ in v 16.
The angel told Mary and Mary to tell the d...
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Money Bags (Luke 10:4; 12:33; 22:35, 36) - Mondays with Mounce 265
Jesus says, “Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out” (NIV; cf. NRSV, NLT, NET).
I ...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Do Not Kill or Do Not Murder (Exod 20:13; Deut 5:17)?
Murder, defined as unlawful and premeditated killing of another person, is commonly deemed to be wrong. There are some, however, who believe...
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Mounce Archive 22 - Using Biblical Languages
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, w...
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Mounce Archive 21 - Unreliable Etymologies
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, w...
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Mounce Archive 20 - Incomplete Definitions
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, w...
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Mounce Archive 19 - Relying on Headers
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, w...
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Hebrew and You with Lee M. Fields — Keeping Sabbath Holy: Purpose or Means (Exod 20:8; Deut 5:12)?
In this post we will compare NASB and NIV as we did in the last, but this time it will cover the phrase modifying the command to remember (...
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