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- September 10th, 2011, 8:28 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Self Taught Living Koine ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 12297
Re: Self Taught Living Koine ?
χαῖρε Ματτ. σε ἀσπάζομαι. καλῶς ἦλθες πρὸς τὸν Β-Γρεεκ. There is only one way to obtain full fluency in any language--immersion. There are two types of immersion--physical immersion and mental immersion. Physical immersion is moving to a place where natives speak the language. You cannot do this for...
- September 10th, 2011, 8:24 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: Mounce's Biblical Greek: A Compact Guide
- Replies: 19
- Views: 8514
Re: Mounce's Biblical Greek: A Compact Guide
Hi, Louis,
I like the format of Mounce's other books. Does he include the optative here?
I agree with Rod. We're gonna need a bigger book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9BeGNnCqw
Man is to man a wolf, and Greek is to man a shark!
ἔρρωσο φίλτατε.
I like the format of Mounce's other books. Does he include the optative here?
I agree with Rod. We're gonna need a bigger book.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9BeGNnCqw
Man is to man a wolf, and Greek is to man a shark!
ἔρρωσο φίλτατε.
- September 9th, 2011, 8:18 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: Rom 4:25
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2537
Re: Rom 4:25
I agree with Barry that the two διά's here have marginally different forces. However, to explain this, one would either have to translate, which is treasonous, or one would have to use meta-language jargon like "prospectively" and "retrospectively," which is a different kind of t...
- September 6th, 2011, 9:25 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: "Tools of the Trade"
- Replies: 17
- Views: 8032
Re: "Tools of the Trade"
Hi, Shirley. It's great to see you on the new forum. What is the point of learning New Testament Greek? There are only two reasons to learn New Testament Greek. (1) It makes it easier to distort the text to make it say what you want it to. Rob Bell, for example, in his best-selling book "Love W...
- September 5th, 2011, 10:06 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello from Raleigh NC
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1546
Re: Hello from Raleigh NC
Hi,Hello from Raleigh NC...The memory work is a killer. I'm really not sure of this...
Memory work is to learning Ancient Greek what tobacco is to North Carolina.
- September 3rd, 2011, 4:55 pm
- Forum: Syntax and Grammar
- Topic: Time in the conditional clause
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2368
Re: Time in the conditional clause
...this construction is usually called "past contrary to fact." The best example of a past contrary to fact condition in English is the old Three Stooges joke: ATTRACTIVE YOUNG LADY: "Strange men are following me!" SHEMP: "They'd be strange if they didn't." :lol:
- August 29th, 2011, 8:49 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Koine pleasantries
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2661
Re: Koine pleasantries
Hi, Stephen, Paula Saffire offers some text and audio of the stuff she uses in her class. Scroll down to "sample scripts." http://blue.butler.edu/~psaffire/textbook.html And you know, I assume, about the "Do you speak Attic?" phrase book revised by Louis and Carl: http://www.lets...
- August 28th, 2011, 10:02 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: Does pronunciation matter? If so, why?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 50589
Re: Does pronunciation matter? If so, why?
Hi, Randall and Vasile, Randall wrote: You want to read Shakespeare and you want to read Chaucer. They have radically different pronounciation systems. Which one should you use? Should you read Shakespeare with Chaucer, should you read Chaucer with Shakespeare? or should you concentrate on the one a...
- August 27th, 2011, 11:23 am
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: 1 Tim 2:12 - should both infinitives apply to ANHR?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4515
Re: 1 Tim 2:12 - should both infinitives apply to ANHR?
Hi, George. It's nice to see you on the new forum. I too have appreciated Ann's past contributions to the list. Unfortunately, however, she does have an agenda which is to remove perceived disabilities imposed upon women most particularly in Paul... I agree, not that this is NECESSARILY a bad thing....
- August 26th, 2011, 11:01 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: 1 Tim 2:12 - should both infinitives apply to ANHR?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4515
Re: 1 Tim 2:12 - should both infinitives apply to ANHR?
Hi, Eric, I do think that ἀνδρός is, according to the sense, the object of both verbs, in a case of what linguists call "gapping," which is very common in Greek. Now for something completely different. Ann Nyland, in her Source New Testament, does something very strange with this verse: &q...