Theolexica

What These are all of my study guides for my Latin studies. I’ve used a number of sources: Wheelock’s Latin Learn to Read Latin Lingua Latina Goals Throw together my own personal notes, charts, and anki decks. Non Goals Create a systematic set of notes. Map to a particular grammar. No attempt at comprehensiveness. Use the Latin tag to find all related notes.

See also: West, Gerald O. “Tracking an Ancient Near Eastern Economic System: The Tributary Mode of Production and the Temple-State.” Old Testament Essays (New Series) 24, no. 2 (2011): 511–32. Amemiya, Takeshi. “Comment on Davies.” In The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris, 157–62. Social Science History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Davies. “Linear and Nonlinear Flow Models for Ancient Economies.” In The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris, 127–56. Social Science History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. ...

A list of vocabulary that is used to determine relationships between languages. Wikipedia Entry

Sound Changes i > e Before the consonants r and h, i could change to e. This is inconsistent (cf. nakirum, nakerum, nakrum) a > e a and e vowels would not exist in the same word. The a would become an e. *bēlātum > bēlētum Exceptions: There are a number of precise rules, but the gist is that if it is part of an ending or connection to an ending, the a is unchanged. III-weak G Verbs III-weak verbs are verbs that are missing the third radical. (It has dropped out.) Basic rules for forming the verb: If the third radical would have occurred after a vowel, nothing happens (end in the vowel). ...

Injunctives There are four tenses that together make up the injunctive “tense” (commands and wishes): Imperative 2nd person commands Precative 1st and 3rd person commands/wishes (jussive) Prohibitive negative commands Vetitive negative wishes G Imperative Commands in the second person The Imperative is never used with a negative adverb. (Use Prohibitive below.) Essential form is the G preterite without the prefix In most words, the theme vowel is inserted between the first two radicals. ...

Use a linguistics chart of the head to explain where all the sounds are located. Give students a tactile and visual feel for where sounds are Becomes important later for sound changes Give some history of the alphabet and trace how it came down to English trace some letters out acrophonically (eg aleph > alpum) point isn’t really to teach ancient abjab, but to interest students, and show what is there also may give some hooks for memory, but won’t have time to do all letters Discuss the concept of a word family, like a fact family in math. We have this in English, but nowhere near to the degree in Semitic languages.

2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees Summary During the high priesthood of Onias, Jerusalem enjoyed peace, and the temple was honored, even receiving royal support. A dispute between Onias and Simon, a temple official, led Simon to falsely report to Apollonius, the regional governor, that the temple treasury held vast sums. This prompted King Seleucus to send his minister, Heliodorus, to seize the funds. Despite protests from Onias, who explained the money belonged to widows, orphans, and Hyrcanus, Heliodorus attempted to confiscate it. The city was in anguish, and the people prayed for divine intervention. As Heliodorus moved to seize the treasury, a miraculous vision appeared: a fearsome horseman and two young men severely beat him, leaving him near death. ...

Apochrypha Chapter Notes 2 Maccabees 3 Resources Doran, Robert, and Harold W. Attridge. 2 Maccabees: A Critical Commentary. Hermeneia–a Critical and Historical Commentary on the Bible. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2012. An excellent commentary on 2 Macc, provides a solid general introduction and a terse but informative line-by-line commentary. Goldstein, Jonathan A. II Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary. Nachdr. The Anchor Bible 41A. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Another excellent commentary, more detailed in both the notes and the introduction than Doran’s.

Resources Domeris, 2015 1 Good overview of economics and link to other secondary resources. Key Questions: introduction of trade into the Temple court, link between money-changers and Greek “banking” (cf 1 Maccabees), corruption of priesthood William Domeris, “The ‘Enigma of Jesus’’ Temple Intervention: Four Essential Keys,” HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies 71, no. 1 (March 23, 2015): 8 pages, https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i1.2954. ↩︎