On Speaking and Scholarship
Students at our ulpans often ask about the relationship between speaking a language and scholarship. The question arises because most in the related academic fields do not currently advocate or...
View ArticleEureka! I found a new approach to Greek.
This is a guest blog by Paul Nitz on Learning Another Language Through Actions , expanded 7th edition, by James J. Asher, Originator of the Total Physical Response known worldwide as TPR. Paul teaches...
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2012 Koine Greek Fluency Workshop
It’s hard to believe that already a week has gone by since the end of BLC’s second Koine Greek Fluency Workshop. For those of us involved in the planning and/or the instruction, it was obviously a...
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Why fluency workshops?
I recently wrote a report on the Greek Fluency Workshop to share with my institution, and something dawned on me in a new way. First here is what I wrote (with more pictures from the workshop): The...
View ArticleWord Order in the Verbless Clause: A Generative Functional Approach
An article by Randall Buth Introduction The basic premise of this paper is as follows: a generative-functional approach to the Biblical Hebrew (BH) nominal (or verbless) clause provides a simple,...
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Listen to and Read the Hebrew New Testament
Listen to and Read the Hebrew New Testament. Recorded and produced by the Bible Society in Israel.
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Peter Burton
Just a quick note to inform our BLC friends that Peter Burton, Randall Buth’s friend, colleague, and supporter of BLC, passed away peacefully on Thursday night (4 October 2012) of complications...
View ArticleRandall Buth on Peter Burton
I first met Peter at SBL’s annual meeting in 1997. A true friendship was formed that has covered the past fifteen years but has now been sadly cut short. Peter was interested in seeing students study...
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A review of “Living Koine Greek Introduction Part One”
On January 3rd, a review of BLC’s “Living Koine Greek Introduction Part One” was posted on the blog “Priceless Eternity.” While the reviewer is anonymous, the blog “is run by a college student…...
View ArticleNew Vision Statement
I just wanted to highlight that BLC has just updated its vision statement. Check it out here. Let us know what you think. We’d love to get your feedback.
View ArticleWhat is wrong with calling the Hebrew verb “an aspect”?
The biggest problem with calling the Hebrew verb “an aspect” is the English language. This problem also applies to any language that clearly differentiates aspect from tense, like most of the European...
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We’ve Begun Biblical Hebrew Instructors Fluency Workshop July 2013 in Fresno
We’ve begun our Biblical Hebrew Instructors Fluency Workshop in Fresno. We will be posting photos on our Facebook page as well as updates during the workshop. For a video from the first day, here.
View ArticleRelevance Theory and the Problem of Tense-Aspect in Biblical Hebrew
Genesis 22 is a common narrative text that is used in introductory biblical Hebrew courses. There are several points of syntax and narrative style in that passage that are often overlooked by both...
View ArticleFaith that Grows, Genesis 15v6
While the need for Hebrew is self-evident for Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, it’s need is sometimes diminished within Chrisitan communities for the New Testament. The following little study...
View ArticleGetting the Right Handles on the Greek Perfect
At SBL 2013 there was a session devoted to a description of the Greek perfect. Basically, there were three positions and they had been published previously. Stanley Porter argued that the perfect was a...
View ArticleWord Order, Focus-CC (Contextualizing Constituent, Topic) Inversion,...
While reading Philemon this morning I noticed what might be considered an inversion of Focus–Contextualizing Constituent (aka Topic) in the pre-verb area. The default order with two marked items, a CC...
View ArticleNew Volume on First Century Language in Land of Israel
The Language Environment of First-Century Judaea, edited by Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley, (Brill, 2014, ISBN 9789004263406) has finally appeared. Here is a PDF of the table of contents and...
View ArticleSo what, in fact, does ἑβραϊστί mean?
A rather lengthy article “Hebraisti in Ancient Texts: Does ἑβραϊστί Ever Mean ‘Aramaic’?” by Randall Buth and Chad Pierce has appeared in the Brill volume, The Language Environment of First Century...
View ArticleThe Language Background and Literary Function of the Cry from the Cross...
We are finally able to provide the published text of the article on the “cry of dereliction” from the Brill volume, The Language Environment of First Century Judaea, Randall Buth and R Steven Notley...
View ArticleDid Jesus Heal the Sick before or after the Sabbath Had Ended? (Luke 4:40;...
A little story begins in Luke 4:40 after the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law (Luke 4:38-39): Δύνοντος δὲ τοῦ ἡλίου ἅπαντες ὅσοι εἶχον ἀσθενοῦντας νόσοις ποικίλοις ἤγαγον αὐτοὺς πρὸς αὐτόν· ὁ δὲ ἑνὶ...
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