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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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Mounce Archive 15 - Play on Words (John 15:2-3)
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 14 - The Joys of Shortening Greek Sentences (Eph 3:17)
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 13 — How Should Bible Translations Deal with Metaphors?
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 12 — Can Translations Co-Exist in the Same Universe?
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 11 — How Do You Properly Use Greek in the Pulpit?
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, ...
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Mounce Archive 10 — Prepositions, Deity, and Christology
Everyone needs a break once in a while, and Bill Mounce is taking one from his weekly column on biblical Greek until September. Meanwhile, ...
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Mounce Archive 9 — A Shift from "Seed" to "Person" in Matt 13:19
From time to time we like to pull some of Bill Mounce's most intriguing and popular posts on biblical Greek from the Mondays with Mounce arc...
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Is αὐτός Even Necessary? (Matt 1:21) — Mondays with Mounce 263
There is a debate as to how much weight to place on the use of the third person pronoun, specifically, does it ever add any emphasis? The ar...
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Our old friend (2 Cor 7:5) — Mondays with Mounce 262
The translation of σάρξ has caused lots of grief over the years. BDAG gives it the semantic range of “flesh, physical body, a living being w...
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When You Can’t Say “He” or “She” — Mondays with Mounce 261
Please understand a bit of obscurity, but I am in a country where I cannot be too specific, but I have been having an incredible experience ...
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Is It the Spirit or His Gifts? (1 Cor 14:1) — Mondays with Mounce 260
Here is a great example of the challenges of a substantival adjectives.
Paul writes, “Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts ...
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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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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 wh...
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To Burn or To Boast? (1 Cor 13:3) — Mondays with Mounce 257
A little textual criticism. Paul writes, “If I give away everything I own, and if I surrender (παραδῶ) my body in order to boast (καυχήσωμαι...
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Biblical Greek and Holy Week — Mondays with Mounce 256
For today's Mondays with Mounce post, we decided to select a few classic posts from the archives of Bill Mounce's weekly column on biblical ...
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The Flexible Dative (Jude 1) — Mondays with Mounce 255
The NIV footnote to Jude 1 alerted me to a great example of the challenges of the dative case.
The second part of the salutation reads, “To ...
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