Category Archives: greek

I’m Working on My Greek – Hard!

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Joey Gibson

From an interview with Daniel B. Wallace, there is this question and Dr. Wallace’s response Lastly, if there is one piece of advice you could give to someone entering New Testament Greek scholarship, what would it be? Work on your … Continue reading →

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A Comma Can Make Quite a Difference

Posted on February 20, 2010 by Joey Gibson

As I said, I am reading the book of Luke in Greek as a Lenten project. At the urging of a friend, I have decided to write down my translation, which I will post here when completed. So today, I … Continue reading →

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My Lenten Project: Reading Luke In Greek

Posted on February 19, 2010 by Joey Gibson

In 2007, I announced that I was going to try to translate all of the book of Jude from Greek into English as a Lenten project. It did not go well. I realized pretty quickly that my skills were not … Continue reading →

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A Page From A Medieval Greek Bible Is Now Mine – Huzzah!

Posted on February 7, 2010 by Joey Gibson

See those two images up there? Those are scans of my latest acquisition, and I’m so excited about it. It’s a page from a Greek Bible that was printed in 1526. If you don’t want to do the math, that’s … Continue reading →

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My Translation of Luke 2:1-20

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Joey Gibson

Last year before Christmas I translated the nativity story from Luke 2:1-20 from Greek into English because I thought I was up to it. My family and I read it together on Christmas Eve, which was kind of neat, but … Continue reading →

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A Very Efficient Greek Word

Posted on December 7, 2009 by Joey Gibson

On Saturday evening I was reading my Sunday School lesson when I noticed something interesting. (Well, interesting to me, anyway.) I always read whatever the scripture is in my ESV, and then I also read it in my Greek NT. … Continue reading →

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Lunch Time Translation

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Joey Gibson

Today during lunch I translated 1 John 1:5 – 2:5 from Greek into English. It was presented as an exercise in Dr. Mounce‘s workbook, which is why it sort of just ends at a strange place. I’m going to include … Continue reading →

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Biblical Greek Word Games

Posted on August 24, 2009 by Joey Gibson

In my Sunday School class, we’re currently working through a book on the Gospel of John, by a man called Mark A. Matson. The book is pretty good, but in yesterday’s lesson he explained something in a way that fundamentally … Continue reading →

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All Things Are Better In Koine

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Joey Gibson

This video made me laugh out loud. You have to know some Greek to appreciate the whole thing, but even if you don’t, some of it should still make you laugh.

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Greek and Spanish Simultaneously: Is It Possible?

Posted on October 26, 2008 by Joey Gibson

Around April in 2006, I started learning Greek, because I wanted to be able to read the source materials of the New Testament (notice I didn’t say the “original” Greek). I worked on this pretty steadily until late 2007. At … Continue reading →

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Incorrect Greek on TV

Posted on December 19, 2007 by Joey Gibson

I was watching TV this morning, it being the first day of my end-of-year vacation, and noticed that “The Price is Right” was on. Since I hadn’t seen it since Drew Carey took over as host, I decided to watch. … Continue reading →

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Translating Jude for Lent

Posted on February 26, 2007 by Joey Gibson

This post got me to thinking about Lent. In it, the author says that this year for Lent, he’s translating “Apophthegmata Patrum, the Sayings of the Fathers,” from Greek into English. I’ve never really done anything for Lent, because I’m … Continue reading →

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Greek Translation Success

Posted on February 20, 2007 by Joey Gibson

Some of you know that I’ve been learning Koine Greek since around April. It’s been fun and frustrating, all at the same time. Most days, during lunch, I spend time with Bill Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek, his audio lectures … Continue reading →

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