Pre-greek breakfast What better way to prepare for a morning of greek lectures than by revising some greek? What way indeed? A few things I’ve noticed this semester: the first half of semester was much easier than the second if you skip a concept, or don’t learn it thoroughly, there won’t be time to go …
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Greek chapter twelve; the third declension, caffeine-free
Greek chapter twelve; the third declension, caffeine-free Yes, you can see a photo here of the greek textbook with my mug of lemon tea. After two cups of lemon tea, I realised it was really just a reflex to be getting a hot drink, and I started drinking water instead. This week was the first …
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Greek chapter eleven – special verbs
Greek chapter eleven – special verbs Just when you start to think the verbs can’t get any more complicated, along comes the second aorist. You might remember that greek has two ways of talking about past activity: the imperfect and the aorist. Imperfect refers to a past action that was continuous (eg i was reading …
Decaf long black with greek
Decaf long black with greek Day four of drinking decaf coffee, and at least in the early part of the day the greek seems to be making sense. I’ve been persuaded to cut down on the caffeine for health purposes, but so far it seems to be having a negative effect. Sorry if you’re a …
Greek chapter ten – complex sentences
Greek chapter ten – complex sentences Chapter ten – halfway through the textbook! This week, we learn how to put two small sentences together to make bigger sentences using relative pronouns (who, which, to whom). As with everything else, there are 24 different ways of writing the relative pronoun, but this time, they mostly look …
Lunchtime greek – forehead slapping moment
Lunchtime greek – forehead slapping moment Doing some translating exercises at lunch: getting used to the new vocab, while trying not to forget the old stuff. New word – genitive singular masculine “this” is toutou in greek. In this sentence, the next word is “tou”. I’m staring at the word, trying to work out what …
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ministry formations week eight
Another week of biblical theology: my illusions of being completely across all the course content are shattered when we are called upon to apply the principles of biblical theology to this passage from Genesis 9. Ouch. We’re coming back to it again next week, having covered the (much easier) story of Naaman for the groups …
Greek chapter nine – pronouns and conjunctions
Greek chapter nine – 3×5 inch cards This week’s class started with another "fun activity", where three sentences crammed with revision from the previous week’s class were on the board. I arrived in time to copy down the answers, but despite spending more time than usual on the content, chapter eight is still a little …
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greek chapter eight – other patterns of nouns and verbs
Missed most of this week’s lecture due to unavoidable commitments. Being so late for a lecture (catching the last 20 minutes out of 180) gives a different spin on things: everyone else is mentally exhausted, you’re alert, but rather lost. Now I have some catching up to do, and some more vocab words to learn. …
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ministry formations: first week back
This week’s ministry formation class was again split in two: in the first part (one hour), we worked through some more of the history of biblical theology. This time, we looked at the three major epochs of the old testament: in this case, defined as Adam to Abraham, Abraham to Solomon, and beyond Solomon. In …