New Videos from the Biblical Language Center

You’ll want to be sure to read about and check out the new videos the Biblical Language Center has posted here, taken during their recent “Jesus in Jerusalem” Koine Greek immersion experience in January.

The first video provides

A Better English to Greek Word Search

One of the most difficult parts of trying to speak Koine Greek is finding the right ancient word. I’ve already detailed a lot of the problems with most of the currently available resources in this post on the need for a contemporary English to Greek Dictionary. In that post, I mentioned The Perseus Project’s search function at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/definitionlookup as a quick way to find what you need, but I pointed out how unhelpful many of its features were.

Well, recently Don Cobb directed me to a much better version of the same type of search.

Coffee in Koine Greek

I’m not really a coffee drinker. I’d love to be, as it would give me one more thing to be snobby about. But for now, I’ll stick to cufflinks and Savile Row suits. In any case, according to Wikipedia, coffee was introduced around the 15th or 16th century, so it’s fairly recent and there is, therefore, no Koine Greek word

Some New Koine Greek Videos

Fellow blogger Michael Halcomb has begun posting some communicative Greek κινηματογραφικά at his website Pisteuomen under the series title Νοουμεν Ελληνις (that should probably be ἑλληνιστὶ νοοῦμεν or νοοῦμεν τὰ ἑλληνικά/τὴν ἑλληνικήν). I believe Michael is freshly back

A Post-break Post

The holiday break officially ended for me on Monday, as classes started up again. Over the holidays, the pressing demands of leisure made it just impossible for me to post, but now the time has been fulfilled and a new season of posting is at hand. So, keep your eyes peeled in the days to come, as I plan to continue posting on the pronunciation issue, the events at the annual SBL meeting, and the way that Bible software can be used to aid acquisition of Koine Greek.

καλή χρονιά!

A Great Way to Practice your Languages

You’ll definitely want to check out the new “mini-Hexapla,” edited by Fred Long, who teaches NT at Asbury Seminary, and Michael Halcomb (who is pursuing a PhD at Asbury and also blogs at Πιστευομεν). The title is:

See how well you can do on my Greek I Final Exam!

I just administered the final exam to my Greek I students yesterday. You can view a copy of it here: Greek I Final Exam (.pdf format). As you can see, there is a lot of matching (with pictures or definitions), a few multiple choice, some short answer, and a few Cloze-style reading questions. Here are a few things