Theological dissertation standards?

My experience with graduate language requirements, and I am talking here about two B/M RA institutions at the MA and Ph.D. levels, is that the requirements are on paper formidable, but in practice almost absurdly easy to meet--I met Italian by taking an upper division Dante course which was taught in English; I wrote a paper in English and translated a few passages, based on a dual language edition of Inferno and high school Latin. I met Old English by taking two courses. I met an MA requirement by taking one semester of Latin and translating a passage that was identified before the test. (University of California; California State University). Like so much in grad school, a lot of sound but little fury.


Craig

 

Nor am I having a particularly easy time at this very moment trying to decide for the purpose of my thesis , for myself , [ experts disagree you know, eg. Wright v Wallace] , whether the articular infinitive in Phil 2:6 is causal or concessive ...........and researching for myself.............
....It is, after all, MY thesis. [/B][/QUOTE]


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Um, of course, if any here in this noble discussion on how theo doc research should be done wishes to offer a suggestion on whether the articular infinitive in Phil 2:6 is causal or concessive, and why, I certainly will listen

 

Bill,

You can always run it past the collection of experts and enthusiasts at the "B-Greek list". They are a valuable resource, although I must struggle to keep up with some of their higher-end discussion.

Dave

www.ibiblio.org/bgreek

 

For Bill Grover

Bill,

I have a 14-page reprint of an article that appeared in The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. The article is entitled The Aramaic Background of Phillippians 2:6-11. The article was written by Father Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S.J. Father Fitzmyer is a foremost Biblical scholar. He uses most of the Greek words you have mentioned on here and he gives their definitions and explanations. If you would like to borrow this, if it will assist you in your research, I would be happy to send it to you. I tried to PM you but your box is full.

 

Re: For Bill Grover

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My box may say it's full, but I emptied it recently. Don't understand.

So, Jimmy, what does the good father say about my problem as to whether that articular infinitive is casual or concessive and why does he say that?

 

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Thanks, might do that. Just picked up Martin's Carmen Christi, over 300 pages on Phil 2:5-11 ,maybe that will wipe away some cobwebs. I have lots of stuff on the issue, unfortunately they all disagree with each other.

 

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I submitted my question, but it bounced back. I think one has to be a member to ask, and I've got too much now going on without participating elsewhere. It does look at like a good place to discuss things.

But I've interacted for about three weeks now with the Greek text and secondary sources on the question of whether or not the articular infinitive by the particle , being now thought by me to be causal, refers back to the phrase "existing in God's form" and so attributes to the Son both the morphe and the isos of God. I think it does, and so I now begin a 8 to 12 page attempted refutation of Wallace, Martin, and Burk on this one verse to further debunk ontological relational subordination within the Godhead.

So, thanks Dave and Jimmy.

 

Re: languages

Alan, you can go here for some excellent study materials. You can also find some good materials here and here especially the Classical Aramaic book and the tapes.
This site may be of some interest to you. These are some of the materials I used during my 16 years of studying the Aramaic language. Most of my materials were Lamsa's writings and books, however. Many of these are no longer available. I also studied for a short time at a Syrian Orthodox Church outside of Detroit where I obtained a number of books on Syriac (called by some Christian Aramaic). I used to own the complete Aramaic Interlinear New Testament, Concordance, etc., but sold them last year to someone wanting to learn the language. I hope these links help.