Greek chapter 5 Adjectives: so easy it’s barely worth teaching, according to the lecturer. Doesn’t quite match up with my experience, but at least some of the word endings must be starting to stick. It seems I’ll have to spend some more time each day revising. Indeed, later in the lecture, it’s suggested that spending …
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ministry formations – week two
The other subject we had this week was ministry formations. There are two parts to it: one on biblical theology – this week, we looked at the history of biblical theology. The second half is more about the individual student; its framing idea is what you do flows out of who you are. This will …
greek chapter 4 – prepositions
Greek Lecture This week was the first time that the in-class tests have been collected for feedback from the lecturer. I’m starting to understand how learning the 24 forms of the will be useful, and have new motivation to keep going with the rote learning of vocab and parts of speech. This week we covered …
greek vocab in a cafe
Spent an hour or two today revising my Greek vocab lists; wrote out the Greek words, tried to learn the English. Not too hard. Then, reversed it. Still getting caught up on spelling (is that a long e – eta, or a short e – epsilon sound??), so the words that I couldn’t remember or …
Learning declensions
Learning declensions The lecturer was joking that we should take a photo of the slide – in fact there are many such tables to learn as part of being able to read and write NT greek. Three hours of Greek, with only a few minutes break in a couple of spots makes for a pretty …
day three of greek
As with the other two days of greek, we started with the lecturer reading a chapter of 2 Peter – it only has three chapters, so we had the whole book read to us (in English) by the end of our intensive "week". Day three was the first day to begin with a test, to …
day two of greek
After a number of hours spent revising verb conjugations and noun declensions (the noun was asked if it would conjugate, but it declined) on my paltry vocab, it seems like most of our initial vocabulary is starting to settle. I’m getting better at reading and writing greek characters. Today’s real challenge is to notice the …
start of greek
Start of greek The view from my desk… The first day of Greek (Koine greek) is all about learning the alphabet. Learning how to write the letters is important, and knowing the order of the letters (alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma – …
Writing a Research Paper in NT Exegesis
[as] Something that may be useful for some readers who might be writing such papers for College next year: Guidelines for Writing a Research Paper in New Testament Exegesis
exams over
Two exams down, and I’ve finished college for the year. It’s been a worthwhile experience over all. I don’t think it’s for everyone: the sheer academia of it would be a turn-off to some people: not everyone wants to study at all, let alone study something that has very little chance of increasing your ability …