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Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek: A Refreshing Guide to Grammar and Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Learning Greek is a difficult task, and the payoff may not be readily apparent. To demonstrate the insight that knowing Greek grammar can bring, Benjamin Merkle, a recognized expert in Greek, summarizes thirty-five key Greek grammatical issues and their significance for interpreting the New Testament. As Merkle presents exegetical insights from the Greek New Testament, he offers a strategic and...

The answer to Porter’s claim has to do with textual criticism. Textual criticism is the study of determining which textual variant is most likely the original reading. Because the original manuscripts (autographs) have not survived, we are dependent on copies of the originals. The problem arises when the copies have slight differences (i.e., variants). Today we have access to nearly 6,000 NT Greek manuscripts that date from AD 125 to the sixteenth century. In seeking to determine the most
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