11. The four uses of the Greek aorist tense
Listen now | Anna Brotherson reads aloud her Substack article, The Four Uses of the Greek Aorist Tense. This is the eleventh episode in the series analysing Koine Greek linguistics.
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Easy-to-read articles and reflections on Biblical Greek (Koine Greek), with a focus on how tense, voice and aspect contribute to meaning-making in the New Testament.
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11. The four uses of the Greek aorist tense
(TBH I thought there were only three, until I wrote this article...)
10. On aspect: Event vs Situation
Listen now | The building blocks of Greek aspect (plus a brief reflection on the encoding of time in verbs).
10. On aspect: Event vs Situation
The building blocks of Greek aspect (plus a brief reflection on the encoding of time in verbs).
9. On Greek tense and aspect
Anna Brotherson summarises existing claims about Greek tense and aspect, and highlights some problems with these explanations.
9. On Greek tense and aspect
The existing claims about it, some problems with the existing claims about it, and the promise of a new series of intelligible and helpful claims about it. (And a lot of lists.)
8. So there’s no passive voice in Ancient Greek. Why all the fuss?
Anna Brotherson gives four reasons why we need to stop talking about the "passive voice" in Greek, showing how it can skew interpretations of texts.
6. Ain’t no passive voice in Greek (part two): the aorist and future tenses
Anna Brotherson reads aloud part two of her argument that there's no passive voice in Ancient Greek (adding a touch of romance and historical fiction).
5. Ahem, is this mike on? There is no passive voice in Koine Greek.
Listen now | Someone had to say it.
4. Semantics 101: How to talk simply about meaning
Listen now | An introduction to the Natural Semantic Metalanguage