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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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Is the ESV Literal and the NIV Gender Neutral? - Mondays with Mounce 286
This blog is purely on translation and not directly on Greek, but I have been thinking about this a lot lately so thought I would share it.
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The Power of a “So” (John 13:4) - Mondays with Mounce 290
It is a well-known fact that Greek sentences tend to be longer than English, and therefore a translator will regularly turn a long Greek sen...
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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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Doug Moo's Insights into the Nature and Philosophy of Bible Translation
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"We still don't get ...
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Douglas J. Moo on Words and Where Meaning Lies
Last month, at the 66th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Zondervan held a special event celebrating the 50th anniversa...
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Subtle Ways of Translating — Mondays with Mounce 243
I never cease to be amazed at the literary quality of the NIV. Yes, I know, I am on the committee, but I am thinking about verses that I fin...
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Linguistics Is Not Prescriptive, Says Doug Moo
At the 66th annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society, Zondervan held a special event celebrating the 50th anniversary of the co...
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Evangelicals and Bible Translations 50 Years After the NIV
Next year the Committee on Bible Translation, Zondervan, and Biblica are celebrating the 50th year anniversary of the commissioning of the N...
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Who is tormented? (Rev 14:11) — Mondays with Mounce 236
The third angel cries, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and (καί) receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will dr...
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