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Here are the most recent additions to the Portal.




Added 11/9/21


Added 11/9/21


Added 8/17/21

Abidan Paul Shah's Website

Added 8/7/21

Here is the link to my YouTube channel where you can watch all my lectures based on Learn to Read New Testament Greek recorded in Addis Ababa in 2005.

Added 8/7/21

Key Resources for NT Scholarship: A Starter List

Added 5/28/21

Jesus's Model for Missions

Added 4/14/21

Seth Ellington's Quizlet

Added 3/24/21

Analog Church

Added 3/23/21

Master Paradigm

Added 3/19/20

Titles for Mark 4:35-41

Added 3/17/21

Book: Intermediate Biblical Greek Reader - Galatians and Related Texts (Gupta and Sandford)

Added 2/12/21

The Life of Saul/Paul

Added 2/4/21

The Hebrew Translation of Mark

Added 2/4/21

The Hebrew and Greek of Jonah 1:1-4

Added 2/1/21

Capernaum, the town of Jesus

Added 1/30/21

Karl Barth on Baptism

Added 1/25/21

Jonah 1

Added 1/25/21

Review of Siebenthal, Heinrich von, Ancient Greek Grammar for the Study of the New Testament

Added 1/13/21

The Fulfillment of the Kingdom in Mark's Gospel

Added 12/28/20

Immediacy in Mark

Added 12/28/20

Jesus, John, and Mark 1:1-8

Added 12/28/20

Ray Stedman, Body Life, and Ephesians 4

Added 11/25/20

Ray Stedman, Body Life, and Ephesians 4

Added 11/25/20

Structuring and New Testament Exegesis

Added 11/25/20

William S. Annis' Greek Grammar in Greek

Added 11/09/20

Laos and Leadership

Added 11/09/20

Sermon Titles for Luke 18:9-14

Added 11/05/20

How much lettuce is there in the New Testament?

Added 11/03/20

Major Characteristics of Mark’s Gospel

Added 10/29/20

The Text of Mark 6:20>

Added 10/28/20

Epistle to the Laodiceans

Added 10/28/20

Sponsoring Native Missionaries in the Majority World

Added 10/28/20

On (Mis)reading 1 Timothy as a “Pastoral Epistle”

Added 10/27/20

Examples of Parablesis in the New Testament

Added 10/22/20

Abidan Shah

Added 10/15/20

Old Testament Quotes in Hebrews

Added 10/12/20

Why Did Paul Author Romans?

Added 10/12/20

Four Lists of the Twelve Apostles: Some Observations

Added 10/01/20

Frequency of Imperatives in the Pauline Epistles

Added 9/22/20

Intensifying Prepositional Prefix Morphemes in Mark

Added 9/21/20

Philippians 1:27-30: Summary of the Main Idea

Added 9/21/20

The Myth of the Teen Brain

Added 9/17/20

Sitting at the Feet of the Apostles

Added 9/2/20

Is This What it Means to Follow Christ?

Added 9/2/20

Markus Barth on Ephesians 4:11-12

Added 8/25/20

Why Four Gospels?

Added 8/5/20

Robert Plummer's Greek Course
Added 8/5/20

Meet Jesus: Why were the gospel accounts written? Interview with David Alan Black
Added 7/30/20

New Testament Greek Guy
Added 7/30/20

The Septuagint and the New Testament: An Interview with Dr. Larry Perkins.
Added 7/13/20

New Testament Textual Commentaries
Added 7/10/20

Mango Languages
Added 6/23/20

Thoughts on Hebrews 13
Added 6/16/20

The Miracles in Mark 5
Added 6/12/20

The Verbs in Mark 5
Added 6/12/20

Why do we suffer? Thoughts on suffering from 2 Cor. 1:3-11
Added 6/3/20

Κατ and laugh: Thoughts on Matt. 9:24 and the intensifying preposition
Added 6/3/20

Thoughts from Ephesians 4:11-12
Added 5/13/20

According to Luke
Added 5/3/20

Linguistics and New Testament Greek: Key Issues in the Current Debate
Added 5/2/20

The Ten Minute Bible Hour: Everybody Says Mark Was the First Gospel, But Was It? Interview with David Alan Black
Added 4/6/20

Daily Greek Quiz by Murray Vasser
Added 4/6/20

1 Thessalonians Sermon Titles
Added 3/2/20

Joseph Hellerman - When the Church was a family
Added 2/18/20

Abidan Paul Shah interviews Dr. David Alan Black on the Carpe Mañana Podcast about offering Greek to everyone.
Added 2/10/20

Why Four Gospels?
Added 2/3/20

Diehard Sins
Added 2/3/20

Verbal Aspect in Greek
Added 12/18/19

Service Leadership
Added 12/4/19

Blog Series on Runge's Contrastive Substitution and the Greek Verb
Added 11/25/19

Textual Criticism with James Snapp Jr.
Added 11/25/19

The Will Run and Not Grow Weary: 52 Devotions to Lighten Your Running Load
Added 11/20/19

Dionysius on Revelation
Added 11/18/19

Who are the Evangelicals?
Added 11/4/19

Where do You Worship?
Added 10/28/19

Ephesians 5:15-24: Translations Comparison
Added 10/24/19

Ephesians 5:15-24: Structure and Meaning
Added 10/23/19

Cheat Sheet of Imperfect and Aorist endings
Added 10/22/19

Verbal Aspect
Added 10/21/19

Motor Era Greek New Testament
Added 10/08/19

Max and Moritz in Biblical Greek
Added 9/30/19

Paul's Salutations
Added 9/30/19

Hyperbaton in Hebrews
Added 9/30/19

Philippians 2:6-11 Hymn
Added 9/25/19

The Church - Baptist Faith and Message
Added 9/18/19

Thoughts from Roland Allen
Added 9/18/19

The Church Today
Added 8/27/19

Biblical Eldership
Added 8/27/19

Myth and Truth
Added 8/27/19

Exit Strategy
Added 8/27/19

History and Theology of the Pentecostal Movement
Added 7/24/19

Adding Greek and Hebrew Keyboards on Mac
Added 7/23/19

The Bible Translator
Added 7/20/19

Wycliffe Bible Translators
Added 7/20/19

United Bible Societies: About Us
Added 7/20/19

Lexity
Added 7/20/19

Greek Verb Parser
Added 7/20/19

Reeves, Ryan. What Is the Septuagint?
Added 7/20/19

Syri.ac: An annotated bibliography of Syriac resources online
Added 7/20/19

La Bible D'Alexandrie
Added 7/19/19

Evans, Trevor V. Verbal Syntax in the Greek Pentateuch: Natural Greek Usage and Hebrew Interference
Added 7/19/19

Bible Hub
Added 7/17/19

Wallace, Daniel B. “The History of the English Bible.”
Added 7/17/19

Robbins, Dale A. “Why So Many Bible Translations?”
Added 7/17/19

Upgrading to the Fourth Edition of Mounce’s Greek Textbook: A Review and Guide for Instructors
Added 7/17/19

They Will Run and Not Grow Weary: 52 Devotions to Lighten Your Running Load
Added 7/17/19

Wallace, Daniel B. “Why So Many Versions?”
Added 7/10/19

The Patrologist
Added 7/9/19

Macdonald, Seumas. “Greek Natural Method reader”
Added 7/9/19

Issues Surrounding the Translation of the Bible
Added 7/9/19

Marlowe, Michael. “Against the Theory of ‘Dynamic Equivalence’”
Added 7/9/19

Poythress, Vern. “Truth and Fullness of Meaning: Fullness versus Reductionistic Semantics in Biblical Interpretation”
Added 7/9/19

Leman, Wayne. “Translating the Text”
Added 7/9/19

Bradshaw, Robert I. “Language”
Added 7/9/19

Textkit Greek and Latin Forums: Learning Ancient Greek with Modern-Greek Pronunciation?
Added 7/5/19

Blass, Friedrich, Pronunciation of Ancient Greek
Added 7/5/19

Berding, Kenneth. "Which is the Best Reader’s Greek New Testament?"
Added 7/4/19

Linguistics and New Testament Greek Conference Videos
Added 7/4/19

How to Type in Greek in an Apple Operating System
Added 7/4/19

How to Type in Greek in Windows 10
Added 7/4/19

Black, "Poetry in the ISV"
Added 7/3/19

Black, "'Press On' or 'Be Carried Along'?"
Added 7/3/19

Black, "Sloppy Agape"
Added 7/3/19

Black, "'Teachable' or 'Able to Teach'?"
Added 7/3/19

Bryan College Library: Greek Resources Page
Added 7/2/19

Abidan Paul Shah interviews Dr. David Alan Black
on the Carpe Mañana Podcast about the importance of textual criticism in the lives of believers and in the context of the church.

Added 7/2/19

Recommended Online GNTs with Parsing Helps
Added 6/24/19

An Overlooked Stylistic Argument in Favor of πάντα in 1 John 2:20
Added 6/7/19

Some reviews and comparisons between Logos Bible Software and Accordance:
  • For reviews of Accordance 12, see here.
  • For a comparison from a former Accordance user who switched to Logos, see here.
  • For a good overview of Bible software options (though from 2016, so a little dated), see here.
  • For a comparison between Logos and Accordance that assesses each one's advantages (from 2018), see here.
  • For an enthusiastic (though not impartial) review of Logos 8 (from 2018) see here.
  • Finally, Abram K-J also has a helpful post comparing the "big three" that, while it is somewhat dated (2012), gives some good advice regarding the kind of questions to ask when purchasing Bible software.
Added 6/6/19

OpenText.org
Added 4/18/19

An Exegetical Commentary on the Greek New Testament
Added 4/18/19

KJV Parallel Bible
Added 4/17/19

Plummer, Rob. Greek Lexicons-Louw & Nida
Added 4/16/19

Bible Web App
Added 4/16/19

Scholars Gateway
Added 4/16/19

Biblia Mirecurensia
Updated 3/13/19
Biblia Mirecurensia has recently been updated to include a free downloadable text of the Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) that consists of the Pentateuch, Historical Books, and Psalms.
The Text of John 3:13
Added 2/20/19

Vassar, Murray. Parsing Practice over 1 John
Added 2/19/19

Origen on the Authorship of Hebrews
Added 2/5/19

The Order of NT books in א, B, A, D, C, Westcott and Hort, and Tregelles
Added 2/5/19

Recent NT Exegesis Textbooks
Added 2/5/19

The Text of Gal. 5:21
Added 1/28/19

Ross, William. "One Year Graded Septuagint Reading Plan"
Added 1/23/19

BiblIndex
Added 1/23/19

Introducing the Gospels
Added 1/22/19

ByzantineText.com
Added 1/21/19

Donald Guthrie on the Great Commission
Added 1/21/19

The Interpretation of Luke 15
Added 1/21/19

A List of Greek New Testaments
Added 1/16/19

Publications by David Alan Black (Updated)
Added 1/12/19

Notes on the Translation of Hebrews 6,1
Added 1/12/19

Wallace, Daniel B. "Reading through the Greek New Testament"
Added 12/31/18

Dijk, Teun A. van. "Discourse in Society"
Added 12/22/18

Nicolle, Steve. Narrative Discourse Analysis and Bible Translation: Training Materials Based on Acts 16:16–40
Added 12/22/18

Orsini, Pasquale. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books
Added 12/22/18

Mounce, Bill. "Do Formal Equivalent Translations Reflect a Higher View of Plenary, Verbal Inspiration?"
Added 12/22/18

Comparison of Pauline and Hebrews Vocabulary
Added 10/7/18

Nicene Creed
Added 10/7/18

Malcom Muggeridge
Added 10/7/18

Hebrews 1 in Codex Vaticanus
Added 10/7/18

Participles in Hebrews
Added 10/7/18

Colon Analysis of Hebrews 1:1-4
Added 10/7/18

Colon Analysis of Select Passages: Hebrews 2-3
Added 10/7/18

Colon Analysis of Select Passages: Hebrews 4-7
Added 10/7/18

Colon Analysis of Select Passages: Hebrews 8-10
Added 10/7/18

Colon Analysis of Select Passages: Hebrews 11-13
Added 10/7/18

Outline of Paul to the Galatians
Added 10/2/18

The Message of Galatians
Added 9/30/18

Kata Biblon Lexicon
Added 7/24/18

Daily Dose of Greek iOS app
Added 7/21/18

Abidan Paul Shah interviews Dr. David Alan Black on the Hoi Polloi Podcast about his book on the authorship of Hebrews.
Added 7/2/18

Coptic Scriptorium
Added 6/25/18

Hebrews Introductory PP
Added 6/19/18

Robinson-Pierpont 2017 Greek New Testament (Byzantine Textform) in Majuscule
Added 6/16/18

Homiletical Analysis
Added 4/23/18

Varner's Introduction to the Use of BDAG
Added 4/14/18

Hanna, Roberto. Ayuda Lexica Para la Lectura del Nuevo Testamento Griego
Added 4/14/18

Colon Analysis of 1 Thessalonians: 4:1-5:22 (in progress)
Added 4/3/18

Imperatives in 1 Thessalonians
Added 4/2/18

Romans 1:1-7 Colon Analysis
Added 4/2/18

Siete Marcas de Una Iglesia Neotestamentaria: Una Guia Para Cristianos de Todas Las Edades (Spanish Edition of Seven Marks of a New Testament Church)
Added 3/26/18

Mandarin Edition of Learn to Read New Testament Greek
Added 3/21/18

The Tyndale House Greek New Testament (THGNT) Website
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by Brice Jones
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by Peter Gurry
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by Dan Wallace
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by Larry Hurtado
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by James Snapp, Jr.
Added 3/17/18

A Review of the THGNT by Todd Scacewater
Added 3/17/18

Coptic Resources
Added 3/16/18

Ethiopic Resources
Added 3/16/18

Hebrews 1:1-4 Colon Analysis
Added 2/28/18

Common Lexical Fallacies
Added 2/26/18

An excellent summary and recommendation of my book The Jesus Paradigm by Austin Decker of Animated Bible and Theology
Added 2/17/18

The Great Commission
Added 2/13/18

1 Thessalonians 1:6-10 Sermon Outlines
Added 2/6/18

Search at this page for "David Alan Black" to find pre-made decks of cards for my grammar that can be downloaded and used with the Anki app.
Added 2/3/18

The Temptation according to the Synoptic Gospels
Added 1/24/18