What’s the best way to learn a new language? By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can begin to predict. Biblical Hebrew is more than vowel marks and waws. Learn how to read it for true
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Reclaiming a Classic Approach to Learning Biblical Greek
Sometimes new does not mean better. In recent decades Biblical Greek textbooks have pursued simplicity, but simplicity brings simplification. John Schwandt believes that the older approaches are better for truly understanding the language. John Schwandt’s An Introduction to Biblical Greek builds upon a classic approach to learning Greek. Schwandt believes the student must understand how
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Textual Criticism and the Authority of Scripture
Textual criticism is an often misunderstood practice. If the Bible is supposed to be the inspired Word of God, how could discrepancies in the text exist? This excerpt from?Textual Criticism of the Bible?tackles this concern head-on. A properly aligned doctrine of Scripture recognizes the authority of the Bible while also acknowledging the human imperfections introduced
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What Goes Into Building a New Hebrew Grammar
When we set out to create a new Hebrew grammar, the physical design of the book was extremely important to the final product. We wanted the book to feel approachable, clearly and cleanly conveying the complex information required to learn a new language. Here?s a quick look at some of the features we incorporated into
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A New Way to Learn Biblical Hebrew
What?s the best way to learn a new language??By approaching it not as a series of facts to memorize but as something alive, with a personality you can get to know and tendencies you can begin to predict.?Biblical Hebrew is more than vowel marks and?waws. Learn how to read it for true understanding by treating
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Unity through Diversity in the Church
When the Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Ephesian church, he was writing to an audience living in a metropolitan city. Since Ephesus was a major port city and trade center, the cultural milieu within the city was ethnically and religiously diverse. Though Paul didn?t speak to any specific local issues within the Ephesian
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The Benefit of Drawing on Linguistics for Biblical Study
Biblical scholars have been slowly integrating the findings of modern linguistics into their biblical scholarship beginning in the second half of the twentieth century. The following is just one example of how linguistics has advanced our knowledge of biblical Hebrew and provided a plausible explanation for a long running debate. One of the first vocabulary
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What Does It Mean for Scripture to be ?Inspired? or ?God-Breathed??
Theopneustos, ?God-breathed.? The term theopneustos is built from the words theos (?God? or?god?) and pne? (?to blow,? ?to breathe out?) and is not a common word in Greek literature. (Some interpreters contest the derivation from pne?, preferring the closely related verb empne? as the source verb.) Theopneustos was first used regarding wisdom in general and
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The Lexham Bible Dictionary is Now Complete
Lexham Bible Dictionary?(LBD) was crafted for a broad audience: the pastor, the scholar, and the curious explorer.?LBD?is an academic-level resource, but entries always start by laying the foundation for understanding. A curious explorer might need only the initial definition of an article, while a pastor might read half the entry and an academic might mull
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Linguistics & the Greek Verb
We?d like to bring your attention to a very important conference that is taking place today and tomorrow. Sponsored by Lexham Press and Faithlife, Linguistics & the Greek Verb is bringing scholars from around the world to Tyndale House, Cambridge, where they?ll examine recent developments from the field of linguistics, which may dramatically shift the
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