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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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Idioms and Context (1 Cor 2:7) - Mondays with Mounce 268
Idioms are notoriously difficult to translate. When they occur in isolation, they are a little easier since you can just find an English exp...
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Statistics Don’t Lie, but Statisticians Can Mislead (1 John 1:7) - Mondays with Mounce 267
I am finishing up a class for BiblicalTraining.org on why I trust the Bible. For the last several weeks I have been immersed in Dan Wallace ...
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Should You Practice Your Sermons? (1 Cor 1:17) - Mondays with Mounce 266
Paul tells the Corinthians, “For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom (οὐκ ἐν σ...
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ETS and NA28 - Mondays with Mounce 265
I just came home from the national meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in San Antonio. The general topic was the Trinity, but for...
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“If” or “Since” We Stand Firm (1 Thessalonians 3:8) - Mondays with Mounce 264
In a first class conditional sentence, the protasis is assumed true for the sake of the argument. In other words, if the protasis is true, t...
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Let’s Play “Fill in the Blanks” (1 Timothy 4:3) - Mondays with Mounce 263
Paul can hardly be accused of mincing his words. He is an apostle, knows the truth, and says it clearly and unapologetically. Sometimes he u...
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Do all things really work for good? (Romans 8:28) - Mondays with Mounce 262
The ESV represents the standard translation of this verse. “For those who love God all things work together for good” (see also the NET, KJV...
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Is there ever a time to use “man”? (Col 3:9–10) - Mondays with Mounce 261
Paul tells the Colossian church to “Stop lying to one another, since you have put off the old man (τὸν παλαιὸν ἄνθρωπον) with its practices,...
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At What Point Does Interpretation Run Counter to Biblical Intention?
This morning in church the pastor read Acts 27 out of the NLT, and I was bothered. I understand that the NLT’s policy is to make the text re...
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Do you feel like a “glorious inheritance”? (Eph 1:18) - Mondays with Mounce 260
In the words of Iron Man, “It’s good to be back.” I had a good session with the CBT on the NIV, except that a good friend dropped dead at 42...
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Is κυριος Nominative or Vocative? - Mondays with Mounce 259
Someone pointed out the other day that the only time Jesus is directly addressed in the nominative κυριος as opposed to the vocative κυριε i...
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Are Ants People? (Mondays with Mounce Archive)
Poetry can be exceptionally difficult to translate. It often conveys meaning more with pictures than with individual words, the words work...
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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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Ellipsis’ Ugly Head (John 12:7) —Mondays with Mounce 254
We don’t talk much about ellipsis in first year Greek, but it is a grammatical fact that occurs more than you might think.
An ellipsis is wh...
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Is “Has Been Causing to Grow” Redundant? (1 Cor 3:6) — Mondays with Mounce 259
One of the important steps every Greek student must make is to move beyond the formal structures of first and even second year Greek, and st...
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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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