To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG On: Historical Presents From: Bruce A couple of us are working on historical presents in Mark. This usage exists in English, but it is...
... The Aramaic tense system works differently from Greek, so it's hard to find an exact analogue. In fact, its system is really organized around aspects: ...
Stephen, Many thanks for the most prompt and most helpful information on historical presents in Aramaic. If I may venture to extrapolate, it appears that (1)...
Bruce, I know just enough Aramaic to be dangerous, so this post is offered as an invitation for comment by people with actual expertise, but here goes. I...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG, WSW In Response To: Jeff Peterson On: Historical Presents From: Bruce Jeff, Thanks for the most helpful suggestions. I would be inclined...
... Mark's instances of KRABBATOS are rendered with forms of (RS = `arsa, which means "bed," the same word used to translate KLINH in Matthew. Stephen -- ...
Bruce, EUQUS can also be explained as an imitation of biblical style; it's used in a few places in the LXX to render wAYYeHI (or however one transliterates...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG In Delayed Response To: Jeff Peterson On: Historical Presents in Mark From: Bruce Jeff had asked, "Things it would help to know: 1) The...
I talked about this discussion with Maurice Casey and the following are his comments. (Sorry I can't do Aramaic letters in e-mails, nor mark long vowels,...
I talked about this discussion with Maurice Casey and the following are his comments. (Sorry I can’t do Aramaic letters in e-mails, nor mark long vowels,...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG; WSW, others In Response To: Stephanie Fisher On: Historical Presents From: Bruce Thanks, I think, to Stephanie for checking with Maurice...
... It may be instructive, then, to see what Casey himself has done with the historical presents in the passages that he discussed in his ARAMAIC SOURCES OF...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG In Response To: Stephen Carlson On: Aramaic Mark From: Bruce Stephen, thanks for the check on the Aramaic supposedly underlying some of...
Dear Bruce, Â I must confess to being a little confused by some of your remarks but, perhaps inevitably (I apologise in advance), I do not think you have...
Maurice Casey does not pretend to have solved the problems posed by Mark's use of historic presents. A new study would be welcome, but it needs someone who...
... Casey's corresponding English renderings of these forms suggest that they ought to be considered as perfects. At any rate, this shows that historical...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG In Response To: James Crossley On: Maurice Casey From: Bruce Discussing the merits of Nottingham faculty with Nottingham graduates is...
To: WSW Cc: GPG, Crosstalk On: Interpolations in Context From: Bruce If memory serves, I published in 1998 an accretional analysis of the Analects of...
can I send this to Brooks? The advantage of Maurice Casey's work (and Maurice is neither ungenerous nor arrogant) is that it interacts with other scholarship...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Stephanie Fisher On: Arrogance From: Bruce STEPHANIE: Personally, I think "The Critical Edition of Q" is the most arrogant title...
I don't want to linger on this because Bruce is working with general statements of belief, more unhelpful speculation and a few cheap shots. I can't see any...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: James Crossley On: Maurice Casey From: Bruce That people will spring to the defense of the interpersonal style of their ...
Speaking as someone who has never studied at the University of Nottingham, and who has no reason to hold any brief for Maurice Casey, I cannot personally see...
To: Crosstalk Cc: GPG; WSW On: Historical Presents in Mark From: Bruce Either we change the thread name, or we revert to the thread topic. I vote for the...
Dear all, Just a little encouragement if we can to keep away from remarks of a more personal nature. Anyone who has been around the traps for a little while ...
To: Crosstalk In Response To: Rikk Watts On: Mark Discussion (SBL 2008) From: Bruce RIKK: I'm hoping to pick up on some of your responses to my review of...
... As an assistant moderator, I want to strongly endorse Rikk's gently worded admonition. Ad hominem remarks, including speculations about the motives of...
James Crossley never conceded that Maurice was 'ungenerous' and he never would. That he said so is blatant misrepresentation. Stephanie Fisher PhD student ...
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