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● Mary held the flashlight over her head (=above her head).
● The mountain towered over the village (= higher than the village).
● The bus drove us over the border (=across the border).
● The vulture flew over the desert (=above and across the desert).
● He lives over the hill from me (=beyond the hill).
● He is over a hundred years old (=more than a hundred years old).
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one (= compared to the blue one).
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem (=because of the chess problem).
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner (=about and because of the cost of dinner).

● Mary held the flashlight over her head.
● The mountain towered over the village.
● The bus drove us over the border.
● The vulture flew over the desert.
● He lives over the hill from me.
● He is over a hundred years old.
● I prefer the green shirt over the blue one.
● Oliver grew puzzled over the chess problem.
● They quarreled over the cost of dinner.

A history of linguistics in biblical studies
from the 19th century through today
Part I: The philological origins
1. 19th century linguistics and biblical studies
2. The comparativists and the “almost golden age”
3. Linguistics in biblical studies after World War I
4. The rise of theological dictionaries
5. Bad linguistics in biblical theology
Part II: Two streams of grammar in conflict: Traditional and linguistic
6. James Barr’s corrective
7. Structuralist lexical semantics, but nobody cares
8. Syntax, but just make it morphology
9. Linguistics for the PhD, but not for thee
10. Grammar above the sentence, but never above the word
Epilogue: Why are we even here?

James 1:9-11 from the SBLGNT:
9 Καυχάσθω δὲ ὁ ἀδελφὸς ὁ ταπεινὸς ἐν τῷ ὕψει αὐτοῦ, 10 ὁ δὲ πλούσιος ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ὡς ἄνθος χόρτου παρελεύσεται. 11 ἀνέτειλεν γὰρ ὁ ἥλιος σὺν τῷ καύσωνι καὶ ἐξήρανεν τὸν χόρτον, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσεν καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο· οὕτως καὶ ὁ πλούσιος ἐν ταῖς πορείαις αὐτοῦ μαρανθήσεται.

Owl walking toward you.

Multiple, but disconnected, paragraphs of text that survey the history of linguistics in biblical studies, ends with inexplicable and out of context author (DATE) citation of Sweeney (1983:667) highlighted in yellow.

Paper abstract:
The SOURCE-PATH-GOAL image schema constitutes a common meaning structure across languages that is grounded in our shared embodied human experience (Lakoff 1987, Hampe and Grady 2005). In Ancient Greek, its formal realization occurs as grammatical constructions. We document how the image schema’s realization in the language forms a small family of constructions expressed via prepositions and how the meaning of these prepositional constructions realize semantics across different conceptual domains (Croft and Cruse 2004, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2007). Some more basic realizations including the primary spatial domain (Luraghi 2003): Ἄγουσιν οὖν τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἀπὸ τοῦ Καϊάφα εἰς τὸ πραιτώριον (‘they brought Jesus from Caipha to the governor’s residence’, Jn 18:28), the temporal domain: Ἀπογράφονται δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ πέμπτης καὶ εἰκάδος τοῦ Παχὼν ἕως τῆς τετάρτης τοῦ Ἐπιφί (‘They registered them from the twenty-fifth day of the month of Pachon until the fourth of Epeiph’, 3 Macc 6:38)

Office meme: "they're the same picture" with the word "picture" replaced with glory because the phrase "from glory to glory" in 2 Cor 3:18 refers to how the reflection of God's glory in the faces of Christians.

The text of 2 Corinthians 3:18: "We with unveiled faces, reflecting the glory of the Lord, are being transformed from glory to glory, just as from the Lord the Spirit."

A radial network of source-path-goal constructions in Ancient Greek.

Examples of the source-path-goal construction/image schema from the LXX and NT in a word document.

Jargon in Mounce (2019)
In his introduction: “At the beginning … comes a discussion of English grammar and then a summary of Greek grammar where I make as many comparisons as possible between English and Greek, with an emphasis on the similarities between the two languages” (2019: xv).
On nouns: “Many do not know enough English grammar to learn Greek grammar. I cannot teach about the Greek nominative case until you know what a case is.” (2019: 27).
On non-verbal predication: “It is incorrect English to say, ‘The teacher is me,’ regardless of current usage, because ‘me’ is objective while ‘I’ is subjective. We should say, ‘The teacher is I.’” (2019: 69).

Page 362 of Wallace's Greek grammar with the phrase "naked cases" highlighted in his discussion distinguishing postclassical Greek's propensity for prepositions vs. case-marked noun phrases.

Beginning of Wallace's (1996) chapter on Greek prepositions noting that it appears in the section "Syntax of Nouns and Nominals" for some strange reason.

Inigo Montoya from the Princess Bride Meme:

αὐθεντέω
THAT WORD, I do not think it means what you think it means.

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