Bel and the Dragon Greek Sentence Diagrams A fun and quirky little project prepared for The Biblical Studies Carnival March, 2020 hosted by Brent Niedergall https://www.niedergall.com/biblical‐studies‐carnival‐169‐for‐march‐2020 Complete New Testament diagrams Nestle‐Aland 28th edition text available at website shown below. Randy A. Leedy www.NTGreekGuy.com Bel and the Dragon Greek Sentence Diagrams by Randy A. Leedy Diagrams: © 2020 Randy A. Leedy. All rights reserved. Greek text: Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs Second, Revised Edition, edited by Robert Hanhart © 2006 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission. Introduction These diagrams originated at the suggestion of Brent Neidergall, who was looking for interesting material as he prepared to host the April, 2020 edition of the Biblical Studies Carnival. The project appealed to me as a fun way to promote my Greek New Testament Sentence Diagrams, published previously in BibleWorks software and, after BibleWorks cessation of operations, under my own auspices in PDF form. Another attraction was the fact that I had recently created a sentence‐diagramming environment for PowerPoint that I knew needed some tweaking. What better way to discover and make needed improvements than to undertake a moderately extensive diagramming project? And so the project was born. For those who may wonder, the choice of PowerPoint for this diagramming environment rests on the combination of its wide availability and its relatively robust graphical capabilities. The diagramming environment is available, currently free of charge, at www.NTGreekGuy.com/Resources. I chose to use the Old Greek text rather than Theodotion for one simple reason: I thought it was a significantly shorter text. After completing the project, I checked more closely and find that it is actually a few words longer! Rahlfs’ edition of the Septuagint, at least as it is implemented in BibleWorks (from which I exported the text) exhibits a few characteristics that readers of the Greek New Testament may find peculiar. Transliterated Hebrew names are not accented (which is not an uncommon practice), and, more significantly, there is no punctuation. The lack of punctuation required me to apply my own judgment about where the sentence breaks should fall. More information regarding my diagramming methods appears at my website, www.NTGreekGuy.com. The URL https://www.ntgreekguy.com/productsample will take you to the exact location on the site where you can download a file containing extensive documentation of various forms about my diagramming style and policies. For most effective use of the diagrams, you will need a full‐featured PDF reader and will want to keep the Navigation Pane on the left of the screen open for access to the bookmarks. I hope that readers of these diagrams will consider whether my diagramming work in the New Testament may be of helpful service to your labors in the Word. Randy Leedy March, 2020 .