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Jews and Greeks

… his message this way: “The Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness” (1 Corinthians 1:22–23). Understanding … “The Greeks Seek after Wisdom” When people think of a Greek or Roman worldview, some immediately think of Greek and …

The Greeks and Alexander the Great

… of literary and archaeological sources survive from the Greek mainland, the islands of the Aegean, Anatolia, and the … include Classical and Jewish sources, predominantly in Greek and Latin. The material finds include pottery, … significant and sustained interactions between Jews and Greeks begin with the conquest of the Persian Empire by …

Joseph Smith’s Awareness of Greek and Latin

… as are his forays in Egyptian and Hebrew, his interests in Greek and Latin were not insignificant. As far as Latin is … occasions in court and in public discourse. Regarding Greek, even if his skills were not at the level of being able to pick up a Greek Bible and sight-read it with ease, a modest case can be …

The Greek New Testament Text of the King James Version

… Bible (see chapter 37)––Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New Testament––the two committees assigned the … providing a translation for the New Testament employed the Greek texts of the day. [1] The Greek text that was ultimately used as the basis for the KJV …

"The Wisdom of Men": Greek Philosophy, Corinthian Behavior, and the Teachings of Paul

… is to consider a particular facet of Corinthian culture—Greek philosophy drawing from the Platonic, Stoic, and Cynic … of Greece, which gradually restored its status as a Greek city, although a substantial proportion of the … For centuries this ingrained competitiveness had led Greeks to strive with each other for preeminence—whether in …

Morality and the Gods

… the nature of the historiography produced by the earliest Greek historians (Herodotus and Thucydides) and also by, more … common among modern historians to assume that the ancient Greeks, especially Thucydides, wrote historiography that can … history. My primary goal is to show that while Greek historical writings are quite different in many ways …

Research Update: Ancient Greek Papyri Project: The Overlooked Birmingham Collection

… Research Update: Ancient Greek Papyri Project: The Overlooked Birmingham Collection …

The Text of the New Testament

… languages of the Bible, Hebrew for the Old Testament and Greek for the New Testament, the two committees assigned the … providing a translation for the New Testament employed the Greek texts of the day. The Greek text that was ultimately used as the basis for the KJV …

Quest for Origins

… was made into the common languages of the Roman empire: Greek, Latin, and Coptic. [1] Jesus had spoken Aramaic, but … the expansion of the ministry into regions where primarily Greek and Latin were spoken. [2] In the late first and early … Corinthian Saints follows the specific traditions of the Greeks, with the Apostle endorsing the Greek practice of only …

The Endings of Mark and Revelation

… its textual base in the New Testament text of Erasmus’s Greek edition (the Textus Receptus ), it is wise to look back … to Erasmus in his five editions of the New Testament in Greek and are recognized today as significant textual … Mark 16 appears in no less than five different forms in Greek New Testament manuscripts, and none of the five are …