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I wonder if we can try doing the Galatians Reading Group with collaborative annotation tools, which allow us to highlight a portion of a text and comment on it, reply to other people's comments, etc. I like that approach because it keeps the text front and center, but allows conversation about the text.

Here are a few examples of classrooms doing close reading in this way:

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  Letter from Birmingham Jail (scroll down to 27 for the first comment)

Anyone want to join me in trying this approach with Galatians?

In the above examples, click on the yellow highlights to see the annotations.

Anyone interested in trying this?

I just signed up on that site. It looks very interesting. I think I'll start using it to annotate Hebrew resources that I teach from. Thanks!

I think that using it for a Greek reading group is a great idea.

Jason Hare wrote:I just signed up on that site. It looks very interesting. I think I'll start using it to annotate Hebrew resources that I teach from. Thanks!

I think that using it for a Greek reading group is a great idea.

There are two competitors, genius.com and pund.it. I am also playing with pund.it. (For my purposes, I need something open source.) If at least one or two people is willing to do Galatians with me, I will set up a group and put some annotations in.

Jonathan Robie wrote:

Jason Hare wrote:I just signed up on that site. It looks very interesting. I think I'll start using it to annotate Hebrew resources that I teach from. Thanks!

I think that using it for a Greek reading group is a great idea.

There are two competitors, genius.com and pund.it. I am also playing with pund.it. (For my purposes, I need something open source.) If at least one or two people is willing to do Galatians with me, I will set up a group and put some annotations in.

I just read through Galatians one chapter a week with Wes Wood as part of our weekly meetings to review Greek: An Intensive Course (Hansen & Quinn) for fun. We're about to start going through the first forty sections of On Cherubim (Περὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ) by Philo of Alexandria as we continue through the rest of the units. We just decided to have extra readings to supplement what we were doing and wanted to start with Galatians first.

I'm certainly interested in hearing more about what you want to do with a Galatians group and possibly participating in my free time. What do you have in mind? Meeting to read online through Skype or Hangouts?

I created an HTML page with the first forty verses of Περὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ, in which I created links to the Septuagint on the German Bible Society's website for verse citations. I'm using hypothes.is to annotate it. I'm just doing this as a practice to perhaps use with our group. Is this the type of thing that you're talking about? Parsing uncommon words, translating phrases, commenting on syntax and interpretation? To what extent will you be annotating the text? Are others who participate invited to mark up the annotation page, too?

Here's the link to what I'm doing: https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.theh ... rubim.html

Regards,
Jason

Jason Hare wrote:I'm certainly interested in hearing more about what you want to do with a Galatians group and possibly participating in my free time. What do you have in mind? Meeting to read online through Skype or Hangouts?

That would make sense. Slack now has video, and could be useful for this - Michael and I have a Slack team for communicative Greek that we could use for this.

Jason Hare wrote:I created an HTML page with the first forty verses of Περὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ, in which I created links to the Septuagint on the German Bible Society's website for verse citations. I'm using hypothes.is to annotate it. I'm just doing this as a practice to perhaps use with our group. Is this the type of thing that you're talking about? Parsing uncommon words, translating phrases, commenting on syntax and interpretation? To what extent will you be annotating the text? Are others who participate invited to mark up the annotation page, too?

Here's the link to what I'm doing: https://via.hypothes.is/http://www.theh ... rubim.html

Nicely done! Any reason you did not use page notes for the vocabulary?

I was thinking of using hypothes.is (or possibly pund.it) for close reading, with everyone in the group making notes on the things that interest them, parallel to a thread here. I have also set up a B-Greek group that can be used for annotations on any page relevant to people here.

Jonathan Robie wrote:Nicely done! Any reason you did not use page notes for the vocabulary?

I just didn't think of it. Now that you said it, I'll move them over to page notes.

Jonathan Robie wrote:I was thinking of using hypothes.is (or possibly pund.it) for close reading, with everyone in the group making notes on the things that interest them, parallel to a thread here. I have also set up a B-Greek group that can be used for annotations on any page relevant to people here.

Sounds great!