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by Shirley Rollinson
March 9th, 2022, 11:21 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Greetings!
Replies: 8
Views: 10462

Re: Greetings!

Hi! My name is Matt Bradley. I teach Greek at the undergraduate level at a small liberal arts college in Franklin, TN (New College Franklin). I received my ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary where I studied Greek under Dr. Wallace and other excellent scholars. I've been teaching Greek in my curre...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 8th, 2022, 5:38 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
Replies: 9
Views: 7279

Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο

English would probably not even bother with participles, but use two clauses or sentences. "They entered the field and began to work"
by Shirley Rollinson
March 8th, 2022, 2:31 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
Replies: 9
Views: 7279

Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο

εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν εἰσελθόντες ἐπόνουν . Entering the field, they began to work . Would that not be better translated as "having entered the field, they began to work"? Using an English present participle ("entering") would imply that they were working at the same time as they were e...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 8th, 2022, 2:39 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
Replies: 9
Views: 7279

Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο

εἰς τὸν ἀγρὸν εἰσελθόντες ἐπόνουν . Entering the field, they began to work . Would that not be better translated as "having entered the field, they began to work"? Using an English present participle ("entering") would imply that they were working at the same time as they were e...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 5th, 2022, 9:16 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: its all greek to me
Replies: 3
Views: 4713

Re: its all greek to me

hi fellow biblical greek forum members, im new to this forum.(and to biblical greek in general) so new that i had to get my classics tutor (javier) to answer the registration question. i asked the greek members on textkit to advise me on how i should start my greek journey. they gave me some solid ...
by Shirley Rollinson
February 27th, 2022, 11:27 am
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο
Replies: 9
Views: 7279

Re: Luke 4:30 -- ἐπορεύετο

Luke 4:30: " αὐτὸς δὲ διελθὼν διὰ μέσου αὐτῶν ἐπορεύετο." "but he passed through their midst and went on his way. " NASB, 2020 I know that an imperfect means something not finished yet or continuing or repeating. I was wondering if ἐπορεύετο is a continual "continued on his...
by Shirley Rollinson
February 25th, 2022, 1:13 pm
Forum: Announcements, Questions, and Policies
Topic: Shirley Rollinson
Replies: 5
Views: 4706

Re: Shirley Rollinson

Thank you so much. For those who would like to keep up with what happens, I am posting to my page on facebook https://www.facebook.com/shirley.rollinson.75/ Thank you all for your prayers. John and I were at peace with his decision to go on Hospice. He was ready and wanting to go be with his Lord Je...
by Shirley Rollinson
January 11th, 2022, 12:23 pm
Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
Topic: Courses offered online
Replies: 6
Views: 5184

Re: Courses offered online

We teach Koine Greek online at ENMU (Eastern New Mexico University) Beginning Greek I starts in the Fall semester, covers chapters 1 -30 of the Online Textbook. Continuation of Beginning Greek is offered in the Spring semesters. Both are 4-credit-hour courses. Intermediate and Advanced Greek courses...
by Shirley Rollinson
January 8th, 2022, 8:46 pm
Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
Topic: Erasmian Pronunciation Variants
Replies: 21
Views: 7921

Re: Erasmian Pronunciation Variants

Steven, her pronunciation of "clock" sounds very similar to "cluck" and her "rock" sounds like "ruck". They don’t to me but then again I’m used to hearing the sound (which I stress again does not exist in American English). Shes speaking with a southern middl...
by Shirley Rollinson
January 4th, 2022, 10:58 pm
Forum: Alphabet and Pronunciation
Topic: Erasmian Pronunciation Variants
Replies: 21
Views: 7921

Re: Erasmian Pronunciation Variants

XfJXUdMvX8o [youtube]XfJXUdMvX8o[/youtube] Take the last bit after the final / - XfJXUdMvX8o - and pop between the YT tags :) As a Brit myself (northern one, so I have the twang of saying bah-th and grah-ss, rather than bar-th, and grar-ss), not sure if the following may help: Would pronounce "...

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