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by Shirley Rollinson
September 30th, 2025, 1:01 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Newbie: Erasmian, Modern, or Reconstructed?
Replies: 1
Views: 89454

Re: Newbie: Erasmian, Modern, or Reconstructed?

Hello everyone! As someone just starting out with Biblical Greek, I’ve realized that one of the biggest hurdles is deciding which pronunciation system to use. Some textbooks stick with Erasmian, some teachers recommend Modern Greek, and then there’s the reconstructed “Koine” pronunciation that clai...
by Shirley Rollinson
September 24th, 2025, 5:35 pm
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Stuck Between Grammars: Which Approach Actually Makes Koine Greek Click?
Replies: 1
Views: 88886

Re: Stuck Between Grammars: Which Approach Actually Makes Koine Greek Click?

Hi everyone! I’ve been diving into Koine Greek for a while, but I keep running into the same problem: different grammars and resources give such conflicting advice. Some push you to focus on parsing every verb and noun meticulously, others say to just read and absorb through context. I’m feeling st...
by Shirley Rollinson
September 13th, 2025, 5:36 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Hello from California
Replies: 2
Views: 15683

Re: Hello from California

Hello everyone, I’m new here and excited to join the community! One challenge I keep encountering when reading the Greek New Testament is that I automatically start translating into English in my mind, instead of simply reading and understanding the Greek directly. Has anyone else faced this proble...
by Shirley Rollinson
June 4th, 2025, 11:26 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Intro
Replies: 2
Views: 35380

Re: Intro

Johnny Turvin :ugeek: Self-study. Just getting started. Welcome to B-Greek. You're welcome to try my Online Greek textbook, https://www.drshirley.org/greek/textbook02/index.html and to browse through the online course which I teach at ENMU (Eastern New Mexico University) https://www.drshirley.org/g...
by Shirley Rollinson
May 27th, 2025, 1:26 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Apologies for the string of repeat messages - I kept getting a message that the submission was unsuccessful Shirley R. It's done it again when I submitted this. Here is a copy of the message from B-Greek : Looks like there’s a problem with this site https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/posting.php?m...
by Shirley Rollinson
May 27th, 2025, 1:23 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Apologies for the string of repeat messages - I kept getting a message that the submission was unsuccessful
Shirley R.
by Shirley Rollinson
May 23rd, 2025, 2:54 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Hi - haven't been on here for a while, so missed your post. - - - snip snip - - - The Religious Studies department had been created out of an old Biblical Studies department in Arts. The head of dept. was Andrew Walls, who knew everything about everthing but wrote hardly anything. But I think the o...
by Shirley Rollinson
May 23rd, 2025, 2:17 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Hi - haven't been on here for a while, so missed your post. - - - snip snip - - - The Religious Studies department had been created out of an old Biblical Studies department in Arts. The head of dept. was Andrew Walls, who knew everything about everthing but wrote hardly anything. But I think the o...
by Shirley Rollinson
May 23rd, 2025, 1:51 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Hi - haven't been on here for a while, so missed your post. - - - snip snip - - - The Religious Studies department had been created out of an old Biblical Studies department in Arts. The head of dept. was Andrew Walls, who knew everything about everthing but wrote hardly anything. But I think the o...
by Shirley Rollinson
May 23rd, 2025, 1:47 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - John M Tait
Replies: 14
Views: 574567

Re: Introduction - John M Tait

Hi - haven't been on here for a while, so missed your post. - - - snip snip - - - The Religious Studies department had been created out of an old Biblical Studies department in Arts. The head of dept. was Andrew Walls, who knew everything about everthing but wrote hardly anything. But I think the o...

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