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Hullo!

Posted: August 25th, 2014, 5:51 pm
by Stephen Yearl
So, an introduction: my early education was in the life sciences, advanced degrees following from this in the history of medicine and science where I had little choice-- given my dissertation topic on how a certain snippet of Galenic anatomy preserved through the Latin tradition collided in Renaissance medical minds with newly recovered Greek knowledge from the Arabic world-- but to become familiar with Latin. Greek was held in relative abeyance until somewhat recently when it finally struck me that if I were ever to read the bible I should read it in its original languages; or, at the very least, endeavour to read ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη. My intended goals are:

1. ΚΔ
2. LXX
(3. OT in Hebrew)

I do not have religious motivations for doing this. Indeed, if asked, I would be hard-pressed to explain _why_ I feel the need to do so. If I am lucky, and get my three-score and ten, then I have roughly a decade for each goal.

I also used to do a bit of web programming in an former job, so I've sort of begun thinking about marshalling resources to aid in my study: koinē word of the day email, generating LaTeX flashcards from Strong's... that sort of thing. If anyone else does something similar I'd very much enjoy hearing about it.

St.

Re: Hullo!

Posted: August 26th, 2014, 4:12 am
by Stephen Hughes
Stephen Yearl wrote:I do not have religious motivations for doing this. Indeed, if asked, I would be hard-pressed to explain _why_ I feel the need to do so. If I am lucky, and get my three-score and ten, then I have roughly a decade for each goal.
Hi Stephen,
Motivation? It is over-rated if you ask me. Dedication and application are the better friends to have by your side in the long run. Don't think too much about "Why?", "How?" is a much more productive question to ponder. There are many approaches to Greek that you can try.
Stephen Yearl wrote:1. ΚΔ
2. LXX
The abbreviation for "LXX" (Latin numerals for 70) in Greek is Ο' (the Greek numeral for 70).

Re: Hullo!

Posted: September 3rd, 2014, 5:39 pm
by Mason Barge
I actually started to do a Greek quiz in PHP/MySQL. I got as far as a functional framework with some general English vocabulary and theological terminology, although populating it was a bit of a chore. But I never did add the Greek, probably because my time is short and I didn't want to spend an hour figuring out how to do the encoding, whether or not I would have to supply a font in the CSS, etc.

http://dailyprayer.us/vocabulary_quiz/v ... _intro.php