by Rob Plummer | Jun 1, 2019 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Grammar, Other Texts, Scripture Passage
Have you ever noticed that all of the imperatives (requests) in the Lord’s Prayer are in the aorist tense? In today’s weekend edition, we explore the reasons for this pattern....
by Rob Plummer | May 25, 2019 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Grammar, Greek Resources, Other Texts, Scripture Passage
Dr. Plummer is a big fan of micro-learning, or learning in bite-size chunks. Today, he recommends a Weekly 5-minute podcast on church history, www.5minutesinchurchhistory.com. The episode from February 20, 2019, “The 3 Foot Manuscript,” is about the famous Greek...
by Rob Plummer | Apr 13, 2019 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Grammar, Special Editions
In today’s weekend edition, Dr. Plummer looks at several texts in the New Testament that specify a certain point in the day. How did people tell time in antiquity? When modern Bible translations differ in their renderings of temporal indicators, we see an example of...
by Rob Plummer | Mar 30, 2019 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Grammar, Special Editions
In today’s weekend edition, Dr. Plummer reviews a function of the genitive case – the epexegetical genitive....
by Rob Plummer | Dec 15, 2018 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Guest Hosts, Special Editions
For today’s weekend feature, we are honored to have guest host, Dr. Sue Kmetko of Stirling Theological College, Melbourne, Australia, share about her doctoral research on middle voice...
by Rob Plummer | Dec 8, 2018 | Extended Exegetical Discussions, Revelation, Revelation 10, Special Editions
The oldest extant Greek language commentary on the Book of Revelation is by Oecumenius (6th century). The first real grammatical point in the commentary appears in Oecumenius’s comments on Revelation 10:2. In today’s weekend edition, we explore Oecumenius’s...
