Description
Appendices for Volume 8, Fascicle A: Grammar of the Apocalypse
This volume contains Appendices upon which are based the technical discussions appearing in Volume 8, Fascicle A. Volume 8, Fascicle C contains discussions of The Authorship, Date and Unity of the Apocalypse. Volume 8, Fascicle D considers various themes about languages and Koine Greek in particular. The Appendices in this Volume are important for the entire series Revelation: The Book of Blessing, Volumes 1-12.
In Volume 8, Fascicle B, Appendix C, The Text of the Apocalypse in Digitized Format (the TDF) and Appendix D, The Text of the Apocalypse in Digitized Format (Compressed) (TDF-C) are most important. The TDF is explained in detail in Volume 8, Fascicle A where it is likened to an X-ray of the substructure of the Greek text.
The X-rays of the substructure of the text enable us to recognize patterns in the Koine Greek language which we otherwise miss. Volume 8, Fascicle B, Appendix A lists 180 examples of a construction involving the Greek word Kai which appears throughout the Apocalypse. Patterns around Kai and other words in Koine Greek are important for the study of the Apocalypse, the Gospels, the Acts and the Epistles of the New Testament.
In the Apocalypse, the X-rays of the text expressed in the Text in Digitized Format provide evidence to support the conclusion that the Apocalypse is a written composition of a single author, the Apostle John. Based upon the evidence provided in Volume 8, Fascicle C, John the Apostle is the author of the Gospel of John, the 3 Epistles of John and the Apocalypse.
The X-rays of the text expressed in the Text in Digitized Format for the Acts and the Epistles support the conclusion that the Hymnic Elements (intrusions or incorporations into various New Testament writings of hymns from pre-Christian sources) do not exist in the Greek New Testament. This evidence is given in Volume 8, Fascicle C, Appendix A.
The X-rays of the text expressed in the Text in Digitized Format for the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke support the conclusion that the so-called Q-Source does not exist in any form in Matthew and Luke. The evidence is given in Volume 8, Fascicle C, Appendix B.
Finally, the Text in Digitized Format helps to simplify the Grammar of the Greek New Testament in a manner similar to the simplifications offered for the Grammar of the Apocalypse appearing in Volume 8, Fascicle A.
