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Dr. Dvorak

Dr. Jim Dvorak is Vice President Academic and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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For those interested in Linguistics

For those of you who are interested in the linguistics of biblical languages or just Linguistics as a discipline of study, do yourselves a favor and get, if you can, Halliday's book, Explorations in the Functions of Language. If you can't find it ...

Is it just me?

Is it just me or does anyone else think that Olive Tree's latest version of Bible reader for Android (I'm on a Galaxy Note 4) took a step or two backwards in terms of Greek font face? The only two options available in Settings | Font Settings | Gr...

SBL Annual Meeting

I'm reading two papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL). I head to San Diego next Friday. I'd appreciate your prayers for safe travels.

New article published

One of my students at OC and I co-authored an article that is now published in the Journal of the Biblical and Ancient Greek Linguistics. It is available here: http://bit.ly/ClsAsMsg

Three points from Romans 12

Here are the three major points from my sermon on Romans 12 this morning (9-Feb): I. A Believer’s Life is Characterized by Sacrifice that is Motivated and Powered by God’s Mercy (Rom. 12:1–2) II. A Transformed Person Understands There Is No R...

Happy New Year!

I wish you all a Happy New Year! As you think about your goals and resolutions for 2014, consider this: Psalm 112 (NET) 1 Praise the Lord! How blessed is the one who obeys the Lord, who takes great delight in keeping his commands. 2 His descen...

λαῖλαψ μεγάλη ἀνέμου, γαλήνη μεγάλη, and φόβον μέγαν (Mark 4:37, 39, and 41)

This post is part one of two (part two coming soon). In Appraisal Theory (cf. the Appraisal Web site), we talk about three systems from which a language user may choose to make interpersonal meaning: ATTITUDE, which includes the subsystems AFFECT...

A few thoughts on Jude vv. 12–13

I could not for the life of me get this blog post to format the way I wanted to, so I put it into a Google Doc. Click here to view. You can also access it here.

In case you missed it

I was invited to write a post for the Perspective Criticism blog a while back. If you missed it, you can find it here. Enjoy.