Dr. Runge,  Are you guys working on another book of the Bible now?  I love your commentary work and am hoping that we are not stuck with only 3 commentaries.  I was wondering if something else was in the works?  Thanks and look forward to your (or someone else that knows) response.  Chris

  2. We have another conference volume in the works on Greek prepositions, how better understanding metaphorical representation will help us better understand the theological picture that the writers were creating, especially where there is a mismatch with English. The conference will be held at Tyndale House, Cambridge as with the verb volume, but (thankfully) there is no controversy about the topic. There was an SBL panel discussion in 2015 on linguistic approaches to preps., and all of us agreed this was the direction to go, but nothing accessible was available. I partnered with a PhD student at Cambridge (Will Ross) to pull together the same kind of cross-disciplinary conference as the Greek Verb Revisited volume. We hope that volume would appear in late 2018/early 2019.  Other than that, not to much to report. I lost both of my folks in 2013 and 2015, and finally finished the estate matters last month. My current focus is the preposition conference.  Thanks for the encouraging words about these projects, it means a lot more than you might expect. I have a number of project ideas that I'd like to pursue, and am trying to adjust things so there will be more time to devote to them but it is mostly hopes at this point. Thanks again!

  3. We should be announcing soon Josh Westbury's Hebrew Discourse Grammar-Foundations volume. It will be comparable to the first part of the Greek volume, but go into more detail because Josh is a better linguist than I am. Should be coming to prepub in the next month or so.

  4. The book is called Greek verbs revisited. It is more technical in nature than at least the discussions I have read by others on the subject of verbs. Dr R, sorry about your folks, praying for you. I'll be looking for the Hebrew book ! And can't wait for the prepositions project. Keep us posted on ideas maybe we can help with funding or anything else. Again, as a teaching pastor and language geek, you have blessed my ministry and teaching of intro Greek and Hebrew at a small seminary I'm an adjunct at!