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by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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
by Seumas Macdonald
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.
by Seumas Macdonald
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...
by Seumas Macdonald
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'.
by Seumas Macdonald
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.

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