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Long Strings of Genitives in the Greek NT

February 2, 2009 by Phil Gons

The last two Sunday mornings at church I’ve seen some lengthy strings of genitives. Last week was 1 Timothy 6:14, and this week was James 2:1. I remembered seeing some even longer ones in the past, so I thought I’d do a quick search and see what I would come up with.

This was pretty easy to do with the OpenText.org Syntactically Analyzed Greek New Testament. I simply called for a genitive word and asked for it to be repeated x number of times. I refined the number to give me hits I was looking for. (Download the query if you want, and put it in your My Documents\Libronix DLS\SyntaxQueries folder.)

The award for longest string of genitives goes without contest to Luke, who in Luke 3:23–38 strings together a massive 153 genitives.

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Filed Under: Miscellany Tagged With: genitive case, genitive strings, genitives, Greek, Logos Bible Software

A Case of Major Plagiarism

January 10, 2009 by Phil Gons

The weekend before Christmas I was doing some reading and research on the Trinity (which is what I spend most of my weekends doing), and I stumbled across something in a journal article that sounded very much like something I had read in a systematic theology book. So I opened the book to compare, and sure enough it was verbatim (the only difference being a single word missing the italics from the original source).

So I turned back to the article expecting to see that the author was quoting a large portion from the theology book and that I was simply reading somewhere in the middle of the quote, but I saw no quotation marks and no mention of the author’s work. Perplexed I started comparing further, wondering if perhaps this was just a very long extended quotation. To my shock I discovered the the author of the journal article had reproduced without quotation marks nearly verbatim (somewhere between 95% and 99% identical content) the entirety of his 24-page article from the other individual’s theology book—almost a complete copy and paste with just a handful of very minor cosmetic changes. The only credit he gave to the author of the content was a mention in his first footnote where he listed a few sources on the doctrine of the Trinity. At the end of the footnote, he mentioned his particular indebtedness to the author whose content he plagiarized. (Most readers have no idea how indebted he really was!)

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Filed Under: Books, Theology Tagged With: Jonathan Edwards, Logos Bible Software, plagiarism, Trinity

Wanted: A Dutch-to-English Translator

November 17, 2008 by Phil Gons

Abraham KuyperYesterday I stumbled across Kuyper’s dogmatic theology, Dictaten dogmatiek: College-dictaat van een der studenten, on Princeton’s digital online library. By the subtitle, it appears to be dictations from one of his students. I really wish I knew even enough Dutch to work through some of this with profit. Better yet, I wish I knew someone who knew Dutch and would be willing to translate his section on the Trinity for me: Hoofdstuk I. Het Dogma de Sancta Trinitate. It’s only 44 pages. Any takers?

Also, how about we get someone to translate the whole thing—all 3,486 pages of it—into English for print and digital publication?

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Filed Under: Books, Theology Tagged With: Abraham Kuyper, Dutch, Geerhardus Vos, Logos Bible Software, Petrus van Mastricht, Reformed, Trinity

GAudi: Google’s Audio Indexing

September 23, 2008 by Phil Gons

Google’s new audio indexing, GAudi, looks very promising. Finally the ability to find what you’re looking for in audio or video without listening to the whole thing! This has huge potential for sermons and lectures and could really make audio and video more accessible sources for academic research.

I wish I had access to this technology when I was running down this quote.

Check it out: http://labs.google.com/gaudi.

Read more:

  • TechCrunch: “Google Launches Audio Indexing”
  • ReadWriteWeb: “Google Audio Indexing: Keyword Searches for Political Videos”
  • Google Blog: “Google Audio Indexing now on Google Labs”

Filed Under: Audio, Technology Tagged With: GAudi, Google, Logos Bible Software, website

Free Matthew, Mark CBC Commentary from Logos

August 26, 2008 by Phil Gons

Matthew, Mark Cornerstone Biblical CommentaryIn an effort to promote the Cornerstone Biblical Commentary series, Logos is giving away the Matthew, Mark volume by David L. Turner and Darrell L. Bock for free—no strings attached! Make sure to use coupon code CORNERSTONE.

NOTE: If you don’t already have a Libronix Customer ID, make sure to download the free Libronix engine and create a Libronix Customer ID before you grab this commentary.

It’s a limited-time offer. Spread the word!

Filed Under: Books, Deals Tagged With: commentaries, Cornerstone Biblical Commentary, Darrell Bock, David Turner, free, free books, Libronix, Logos Bible Software

Resources on the Problem of Evil

August 25, 2008 by Phil Gons

I’ve seen several treatments of the problem of evil around the blogosphere recently.

  • Interview with John Frame on the Problem of Evil
    Andy Naselli at Between Two Worlds
  • The Logical and Emotional Problems of Evil
    Andy Naselli at his Theology blog
  • The Problem of Evil, Suffering, and Pain
    C. Michael Patton at Parchment and Pen
  • The Problem of Evil with John MacArthur
    Chris Larson at the Ligonier Ministries Blog

They all look worth a read or listen.

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: evil, Logos Bible Software, problem of evil, software, theodicy

Van Til on Barth—and Doctrinal Sins

July 30, 2008 by Phil Gons

Those who are familiar with the writings of Cornelius Van Til are well aware of his strong criticism of Barth’s theology. He takes Barth to task in Christianity and Barthianism and The New Modernism: An Appraisal of the Theology of Barth and Brunner and avers that Barth’s theology is “in all fundamental respects . . . the same as the Modernism of Schleiermacher and his school.” In the theology of Barth we find “basically, the same sort of view of reality and of knowledge as marks the work of Schleiermacher or Ritschl” (The New Modernism, 2d ed.).1

One might infer from his severe criticism of Barth that Van Til considered him outside the sphere of God’s saving work. That’s what Richard Mouw thought—until Van Til himself set him straight.

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  1. Van Til mentions Barth 8,588 times (Barth [8,264x], Barthian [119x], Barthianism [140x], and Dutch variations like Barthiaansch and Barthianisme [65x]) and cites him 1,824 times based on the collection of his works available for Libronix. [↩]

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: John Frame, Karl Barth, Logos Bible Software, Richard Mouw, sins of ignorance, Van Til

“John Owen Today” Conference

June 3, 2008 by Phil Gons

The nine speakers are set for the John Owen Today conference, which will be held on 19–22 August 2008 at Westminster College in Cambridge.

  • Willem van Asselt, Utrecht University, Holland
  • Stephen R Holmes, St Mary’s College, University of St Andrews, UK
  • Michael S Horton, Westminster Seminary, California, USA
  • George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, USA
  • Kelly Kapic, Covenant College, Georgia, USA
  • Suzanne MacDonald, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, USA
  • Sebastian Rehnman, Johannelunds Theological Seminary, Sweden
  • Alan Spence, United Reformed Church, London, UK
  • Carl Trueman, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, USA

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Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: conferences, John Owen, Logos Bible Software, Puritans

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