[B-Greek] William Harper Rainey's Textbook
Barry H.
nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Jan 29 15:42:26 EST 2011
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From: "Robert Stump" <robertstump at gmail.com>
To: "Barry H." <nebarry at verizon.net>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2011 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] William Harper Rainey's Textbook
> Barry-
>
> Thanks for the input. Would you know of any deductive works that I
> could use as a supplement (preferably of the free variety, as I
> mentioned before I'm a student, and as I didn't mention I have a
> 4-month-old baby)?
>
> When you say you are incorporating spoken Greek do you mean readings,
> or is this more of a conversational approach? and again, any
> suggestions?
>
> Per sanguine agni,
> Robert Stump
> FL, USA
Kevin just mentioned La Sor, and you you might want to have a look at that,
though I can't recommnd it. Before I started seminary, I used La Sor's
Hebrew inductive text (for, of all things, the Moody Bible Correspondence
school's course!), and liked the fact that I was seeing real, biblical
Hebrew right away, but simply took Hebrew from square one at seminary, which
used a traditional deductive approach at that time. Athenaze is directed
toward Attic Greek, as I said, but includes a fair number of NT readings
along with it. Otherwise, I am not familiar with any other resources, being
fairly happy with what I am using now.
And I did mean conversational -- I have always had students read their Latin
and Greek aloud, until they are in the more advanced classes. It's helped
surprisingly, especially with the younger students, who are simply excited
about learning how to "say it in Latin." It gets them to thinking that this
was a language used in communication, and how do you say "May I go get a
snack" or the like correctly. They hate it, but occasionally I have taken
to explaining in the language what they have a question about. Again, I
don't do this nearly to the extent that Dr. Buth recommneds (he has a total
immersion method), but even a little seems to help a lot.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
Classics and Bible Instructor, TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net
(2010 Salvatori Excellence in Education Winner)
V-P of Academic Affairs, TNARS
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