[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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----- Original Message ----- 
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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