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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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“Gospel of Glory,” or “Glorious Gospel” in 1 Tim 1:11? (Monday with Mounce 80)
Functional equivalent translations are used to taking exegetical positions. After all, they are committed to trying to convey the meaning o...
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“With” or In” the Spirit - Mt 3:11 (Monday with Mounce 79)
In the early times of Greek, before Classical Greek, there weren't prepositions. Basic ideas were associated with the different cases, ...
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Normal Sentence Order
I can’t remember if I have blogged on this before, but I was thinking about it today during church.
I remember the first tie I heard someon...
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When is a Sentence a Question? (Monday with Mounce 77)
 
I was asked the other day when you know a Greek sentence is a question. I don't think I have ever been asked that, which is a b...
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Does καἰ Mean "But"? (Monday with Mounce 76)
I had an interesting experience in church today. The pastor preached an excellent sermon on John 14:22-24 using the NIV. “Then Judas (not J...
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What Constitutes an Accurate Translation? (Monday with Mounce 75)
I had a fascinating experience this summer. I spent my first three weeks on the NIV translation committee, the CBT. We were locked away in W...
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Dear Bill Mounce (An Open Letter from Koinonia)
Dear Bill,We heard you'll be away from blogging until September 13. So we're a little glum, but we’re happy you’ll be back on ...
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How Do We Define Biblical Words? (Monday with Mounce 74)
Every once in a while I get a question that is so basic that it has never occurred to me to answer it. Someone asked me the other day, how d...
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2 Pet 1:20—Can an Individual Interpret Scripture? (Monday with Mounce 73)
2 Pet 1:20-21 are important verses for our doctrine of
Scripture, and so it should come as no surprise that there are some differences
of o...
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Biblical Languages as a Spiritual Discipline (Monday with Mounce 72)
Last week's guest blog courtesy of Marc Cortez at Western Seminary was evidently interesting to many of you, so I thought I would post ...
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The Biblical Languages in Life and Ministry (Monday with Mounce 71)
My friend Marc
Cortez wrote this blog on the Western
Seminary's blog site and I thought it is worth reposting here in its entirety. I l...
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2 Thess 2:13—What do Prepositions Modify? (Monday with Mounce 70)
Sometimes it can be tricky to hook a
preposition up to the word it is modifying. In the example of 2 Thess 2:13, in
the commentaries I chec...
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Classical and Koine on “New” (Monday with Mounce 69)
Language changes. It is one of the undeniable, universal truths of reality. Events can slow the development of a language down, like the Kin...
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Off Topic: Greek Final Exam & BibleGateway (Monday with Mounce 68)
This is a totally off-topic blog, but there are two things that I wanted to share with you.
 
If you are a student headed toward final...
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1 Cor 7:5 — Prayer and Fasting (Monday with Mounce 67)
The other day I spoke briefly about textual criticism and
why the Greek texts behind the King James Version (and the NKJV) and all modern
t...
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Titus 1:6—Are Elder's Children "Believers” or “Faithful”? (Monday with Mounce 66)
Most of the requirements for church leadership are
straight forward.
Each person is to be above reproach, and among other things
this means...
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