Search found 33 matches
- March 2nd, 2017, 2:59 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43279
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
Personally, I do use sign when working on the fundamentals and find it very helpful. I find it functions effectively as a second non-verbal "layer" over the exchange that really allows students to connect the language with the concrete things going on. I don't sign everything (definitely n...
- February 22nd, 2017, 7:00 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43279
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
I thought a lot about the question of 'this' versus 'that'. Eventually I settled on using οὗτος for the basic questions. You would use either in English, "What's this? What's that?" At some point you'd want to introduce the distinction between οὗτος and ἐκεῖνος. At that point, I'd use a se...
- February 21st, 2017, 2:59 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43279
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
Ben, glad you found the videos useful! I would really like to do more, but I'm not teaching much Greek at the moment at all so that kind of slows down both my own development, and producing videos I found to be a labour and time intensive task. Hopefully life will render me an opportunity to teach s...
- February 20th, 2017, 2:55 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43279
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
For prepositions, I tended to work with static positional ones first. Then movement ones. Abstract prepositions are the hardest (as are all abstractions, really). When you get to "through", it's just a good time to introduce an object through which another one can move through. And I'd jus...
- February 19th, 2017, 4:24 am
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
- Replies: 37
- Views: 43279
Re: Where Are Your Keys' Universal Speed Curriculum
Just saw this post and thought I'd break my general silence to pipe up: I wrote a USC for Greek several years ago.But looking over it, it's not really up to scratch, and I've changed my own approach I never really used the 'trade' sections. I also haven't touched the file in several years. I have do...
- November 8th, 2015, 7:18 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Who is speaking or chairing at SBL 2015?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3715
Re: Who is speaking or chairing at SBL 2015?
I'm presenting on, 'Is Basil a pro-Nicene Exegete?' in the Development of Early Christian Theology section
- August 28th, 2015, 12:53 am
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Classical Greek or Latin after Koine for NT studies?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8621
Re: Classical Greek or Latin after Koine for NT studies?
Certainly, I would concur with Stephen's qualification - Law being the major exception. Which is why in the milieu of Libanius and 4th century Antioch, it's always the lawyers who learnt Latin.
- August 27th, 2015, 11:54 pm
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Classical Greek or Latin after Koine for NT studies?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 8621
Re: Classical Greek or Latin after Koine for NT studies?
As someone with Latin in their training, NT studies rarely requires Latin, and there is not that much in Latin that you will likely want to access unless your intended direction is to focus on particularly Roman classical sources; remember that even the eastern half of the Empire is practically func...
- August 27th, 2015, 7:32 pm
- Forum: Vocabulary
- Topic: Μονογενης
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7040
Re: Μονογενης
The later church fathers almost certainly use it to mean 'only-begotten', even if the very likely meaning in the NT context is something closer to 'unique in kind'.
- July 22nd, 2015, 1:12 am
- Forum: Church Fathers and Patristic Greek Texts
- Topic: κήρυκας ὑποστρωννύμενοι
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3441
Re: κήρυκας ὑποστρωννύμενοι
I would have taken ὑποστρωννύμενοι with the sense of "being stretched out, laid out" and the accusative κήρυκας as what they are strewn out upon. I would also suggest that the technical sense of shells has perhaps given way to a derivative meaning of simply sharp edges, spikes or the like.