Reading Greek Deeply: A Linguistic, Exegetical, and Fluency-Based Introduction

Reading Greek Deeply: A Linguistic, Exegetical, and Fluency-Based Introduction

Kevin Grasso 

 

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De Gruyter Studium

Reading Greek Deeply offers a new approach to the study of Biblical Greek drawing on the latest linguistic research in second language acquisition, syntax, and semantics. This open access textbook supplements the Biblingo app with each chapter paired with exercises in the app, creating an immersing learning experience where students develop fluent reading through meaningful language use.

Introductions to key linguistic concepts – phonology and pronunciation, basic word order, lexical semantics, tense and aspect, voice and valency, mood and modality, and more – provide readers with tools to engage deeply with the Greek text. Exegetical sections demonstrate how these linguistic categories can be used to come to a better understanding of difficult interpretive questions.

While covering all the basic morphology for students just beginning their language journey, this textbook also incorporates cutting-edge syntax and semantics categories, making Reading Greek Deeply an essential resource for students and scholars alike.

To learn more about the language-learning app, go to Biblingo — Read the Bible with Ancient Eyes.

eBook published on:

November 2, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783111713632

Paperback published on:

November 2, 2026

Paperback ISBN:

9783111712840

Front matter:

18

Main content:

602

Illustrations:

2

Tables:

443

 

 

New Open Access Journal: Didaktik des Hebräischen

Didaktik des Hebräischen 

Über die Zeitschrift

Zielgruppe der Leser- wie der Autorenschaft sind all jene, die einen Praxisbezug zum Hebräischunterricht haben. Das kann sowohl Lehrpersonen an jüdischen Grundschulen und Gymnasien, allgemeinbildende Gymnasien als auch in der Hochschullehre sein. Die DdH soll sowohl in der theoretischen Ausbildung der Lehrpersonen als auch in der praktischen Umsetzung des Unterrichts brauchbar sein.

In der DdH sollen wissenschaftlich fundierte, fachdidaktische Beiträge (Artikel) zum Themengebiet der Vermittlung der hebräischen Sprache veröffentlicht werden. Personen, die einen Praxisbezug zu dieser Lehrtätigkeit haben, also Lehrkräfte an jeder möglichen Schule mit Hebräischunterricht sowie Hochschullehrende, können Aufsätze einreichen. Der primäre Fokus liegt auf fachdidaktischen Fragen, verwandte Themengebiete (etwa Pädagogik) können ebenfalls berücksichtigt werden. Der Umfang des Aufsatzes ist frei, solange er dem jeweiligen Thema angemessen ist. Wissenschaftlich reflektierte Unterrichtsentwürfe sind ebenfalls erwünscht.

Kürzere Beiträge (Notizen) von maximal drei Seiten zu speziellen Beobachtungen oder kleineren didaktischen Hinweisen sind ebenfalls möglich.

Daneben sind Rezensionen von Büchern und e-Ressourcen (Lernmaterial, Videos usw.) aus dem thematischen Bereich der Zeitschrift erwünscht.

Gerne können bereits Beiträge (unformatiert) als E-Mail bei David Bindrim eingereicht werden.

The Danish System

Marin G. Ehrensvärd

S. 1-4

• DdH.2026.Notiz 01.Ehrensvärd.The Danish System (English)

 

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Pyrrhus’ Legacy: Socio-Political Interactions, Mobility, and Identity Formation in South Italy

Pyrrhus’ Legacy: Socio-Political Interactions, Mobility, and Identity Formation in South Italy

Edoardo Bianchi 

 

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Volume 434 | Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

This edited volume presents research pursued within the PRIN‑2022 project Mediterranean Multipolarity and Roman Unipolarity: Power Competition and Collaboration in Graeco‑Roman Geopolitics (3rd–2nd century BCE).

The contributions first investigate how the upheavals of the Pyrrhic War affected the relations of the Greek communities of southern Italy with Rome. They also explore how the new political situation in the peninsula was reflected in historiographical writing, which intensified in the 3rd century and counted Timaeus of Tauromenium among its most important exponents. Further chapters pay due attention to episodes of coercive mobility in Italy after the war and demonstrate that the conflict influenced the construction of identities, primarily civic and ethnic ones, as can be traced through literary and archaeological evidence. The final contributions examine how the memory of Pyrrhus was exploited in Roman political discourse of the Late Republic. To this end, relevant passages from Greek and Roman authors such as Polybius and Cicero are considered, which will interest scholars and students from various fields of Classical studies.

eBook published on:

August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112236604

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112236598

Front matter:

11

Main content:

319

Illustrations:

3

 

Excerpting History in the Syriac World: The Miaphysite Collections (6th–10th c.)

Excerpting History in the Syriac World: The Miaphysite Collections (6th–10th c.)

Giorgia Nicosia 

 

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Volume 119 | Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies

This book examines five Syriac historiographical excerpt collections from Miaphysite milieus (6th-10th c.), preserved in MSS Deir al-Surian Syr. 28A, British Library Add. 12155, 14533, 12154, and Vat. Sir. 145. The collections draw chiefly on the Syriac translations of the Ecclesiastical Histories of Socrates and Theodoret, while also transmitting passages from Flavius Josephus’ Jewish War and the histories of Eusebius, Pseudo-Zachariah, and John of Ephesus. The volume traces the formation and circulation of the collections and studies their composition, showing how – unlike their Byzantine (Greek) counterparts – they resist strict taxonomies. Copyists adopted individual excerpting techniques, ranging from simple cut-and-paste to more substantial reworking. Moreover, several collections focus on accounts of the anti-Arian struggles and thus present the Miaphysites as the new Nicenes. Finally, the book provides the hitherto largely unedited texts of the corpus, both in Syriac and in English translation. By combining literary and historical analysis and placing Syriac texts within a wider context, the volume brings renewed attention to this overlooked genre and illuminates the role historiography played in forging communal identity.

eBook published on:

August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112244135

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112244128

Front matter:

13

Main content:

706

Tables:

40

 

 

Das Bild der Schrift in der griechischen Plastik: Materialität und Intermedialität schrifttragender statuarischer Monumente von archaischer bis hellenistischer Zeit

Das Bild der Schrift in der griechischen Plastik: Materialität und Intermedialität schrifttragender statuarischer Monumente von archaischer bis hellenistischer Zeit

Johannes Fouquet 

 

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Volume 27 | Image & Context

Inscriptions are a fixed component of statuary monuments in Greek sculpture. Unlike their textual content, their materiality and aesthetics were long overlooked in classical studies. This study is thus the first to examine questions relating to the design of statuary inscriptions and the associated social practices between the Archaic and Hellenistic periods.

eBook published on:

August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112212202

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112205518

Front matter:

12

Main content:

580

Illustrations:

158

Coloured Illustrations:

14

 

 

 

 

Imperium und Oikumene: Universale Horizonte und partikulare Kontexte in der hellenistisch-römischen Welt

Imperium und Oikumene: Universale Horizonte und partikulare Kontexte in der hellenistisch-römischen Welt

Charlotte Köckert 

 

Volume 120 | Millennium-Studien / Millennium Studies 

In the Hellenistic-Roman world, communication exists within the tension between specific contexts and broader perspectives. Living environments are local in scale yet related to universal horizons. This creates problems for theoretical and empirical sciences, as well as for 'world empires' and 'world religions'. The contributions in this volume examine these issues from the perspective of various disciplines within classical studies 

eBook published on:

August 31, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112249758

Hardcover published on:

August 31, 2026

Hardcover ISBN:

9783112249741

Front matter:

11

Main content:

452

Tables:

2

 

 

Avian Iconography and Awareness of the Natural Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Avian Iconography and Awareness of the Natural Calendar in Ancient Egypt

Chiori Kitagawa 

 

Ancient Egyptians employed three calendrical systems—civil (365 days), natural (environmental phenomena) and lunar—yet the relationship between administrative time-reckoning and ecological awareness in funerary iconography merits closer examination. Whilst elites employed the civil calendar for administration, subsistence practitioners followed natural seasonal rhythms, such as Nile inundation, animal reproduction and bird migration. This study investigates whether Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom (27th–18th century BCE) funerary decorations depicting avian fauna reflect accurate seasonal temporality or idealised scenes separated from natural cycles.

The research analyses avian iconography in funerary contexts, examining whether portrayed bird species could have seasonally coexisted and comparing these with depicted subsistence activities. It evaluates how tomb owners and artisans conceptualised and incorporated natural temporal patterns into commemorative spaces.

The findings address whether representations adhered to conceptual (aspektivisch) conventions excluding random factors, thereby treating seasonality as incidental rather than intentional. This contributes to understanding the intersection of ecological knowledge, temporal consciousness and artistic convention in funerary contexts from ancient Egypt.

eBook published on:

October 19, 2026

eBook ISBN:

9783112244937

Paperback published on:

October 19, 2026

Paperback ISBN:

9783112244920

Front matter:

8

Main content:

58

Illustrations:

21

Tables:

1