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The last three chapters of the textbook are on miscellany. The words for “I sit down”, “I lie down”, “I know”, “I am able” are interesting: they have perfect endings, but present meanings. Have I lost you yet? The most scary part of chapter 18 (this week’s chapter) is the notion of principal parts. For …
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This week, we had a look at a couple of actual verses in Greek: instances where what we have been learning will help us see extra layers of meaning in the text that can’t be seen by looking just at the English. We learned the subtle difference between purpose (what you’re seeking to achieve) and …
Started the intense-mode “Psalms” course today. It’s been an overview more than anything else. The pre-reading I’ve done for the course has put me in good stead to be able to follow what’s going on, though occasionally there will be mention of something in Hebrew (kindly transliterated into English characters) which reminds me of the …
Greek: semester two, week 3 Don’t worry, that’s a hot chocolate on my desk for this lecture, though I had half a real coffee this morning: an odd experience, but I found myself pretty alert for the first two hours of class at least. This week we revised the passive voice for verbs, and learned …
Greek, chapter 15: the passive and voices The second week back to Greek, and there’s already a sense of foreboding. It looks like the last half-dozen chapters of the textbook are going to be tough. I’ve had the vocab CD on fairly high rotation in the car, and still a few words escape me: not …
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Greek – semester two, week 1. Participles. I’m often asked why I’m learning Greek: after all, there are dozens – maybe even hundreds of English translations – why not stick to one of them instead of going to all this trouble? This week provided a bit of insight into where it can be useful. A …
Another subject this semester: Early Church History… pretty much 50AD – 451AD. Why would I want to learn this? Because this is where it was all happening – the church went from one guy walking around in a small part of the Middle East, to being all over the known world, in the space of …
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My exam is over: the test itself wasn’t as bad as I was fearing; the split between memory work and translation was about 70/30. I don’t think I scored 100%, but I felt like I went pretty well. The real nightmare was in the lead-up to the exam: we had a vocabulary of over 400 …
Simon, from my Greek class has put up a modified form of the end-of-chapter vocab exercises in random order and in normal order, if you’re looking for something to help you revise. Update: it’s a reworking of the end of chapter exercises on Duff’s site, with one additional feature: if makes you start that chapter’s …
Greek chapter 13 – Handing out the evaluation forms One last chapter of third declension nouns, a handful of subject evaluation forms, and we’re into stu-vac.