Glad to be here
Posted: May 20th, 2014, 8:14 pm
Hello,
My name is Travis. I hail from the midwestern portion of the United States of America. Although foreign languages (I'm an English native speaker), and especially something like biblical Greek, have nothing to do with my formal education or field of work, I do have an extremely large affinity for the word of God. I always find myself frustrated when I hear someone expound on the nuances of the Greek in a passage, and I see that I could not have had a chance of finding that using most English translations. Too often I have found myself mulling over a specific verse for hours trying to understand what it is trying to convey (specifically), when I know someone literate in biblical Greek could see such things in a matter of minutes. Thus, recently I finally resolved to teach myself biblical Greek. I am going through Black's Greek Grammar, with the assistance of Mounce's (I will probably go through both in time), and I am using some internet tools as well. My goal is to be able to pick up a Greek New Testament and be able to read it all the way through without significant assistance from any grammatical tools, like a lexicon.
Glad to finally be on this journey,
Travis
My name is Travis. I hail from the midwestern portion of the United States of America. Although foreign languages (I'm an English native speaker), and especially something like biblical Greek, have nothing to do with my formal education or field of work, I do have an extremely large affinity for the word of God. I always find myself frustrated when I hear someone expound on the nuances of the Greek in a passage, and I see that I could not have had a chance of finding that using most English translations. Too often I have found myself mulling over a specific verse for hours trying to understand what it is trying to convey (specifically), when I know someone literate in biblical Greek could see such things in a matter of minutes. Thus, recently I finally resolved to teach myself biblical Greek. I am going through Black's Greek Grammar, with the assistance of Mounce's (I will probably go through both in time), and I am using some internet tools as well. My goal is to be able to pick up a Greek New Testament and be able to read it all the way through without significant assistance from any grammatical tools, like a lexicon.
Glad to finally be on this journey,
Travis