Pedagogy
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about bilingualism in children, and some academic articles relating to language shift in Gàidhlig. They caused me to also reflect a little about what the broader goals of teaching classical languages, e.g. Latin, Greek, κτλ., via communicative methods are. It’s not
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Not really a state of the projects, since most of my projects have been sidelined recently... My wife and I just had a baby girl, Sorcha (here if you want some pronunciation help), who turned up a few weeks early. Wonderful times but it did throw a spanner in my
Greek
I don't know if it is, but I suspect that it might be. (You'd need a fairly wide-ranging study to establish it) This past week I've been marking some exegetical papers by new second-year Greek students, and as they struggle to turn
Language
I'm trying to cultivate a new habit, and the title is it. Everytime I find myself writing something like, "the word ὑπόστασις means "blah de blah blah'", I stop and rewrite it to something more like, "the word ὑπόστασις translates as 'blah&
Greek
(I'm mostly in the midst of doing a lot of thesis writing, but thought I could take some time out to ride a hobby horse). * Knowing a language isn't a qualification for teaching a language. We usually think that knowing something is a pre-requisite for
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Yesterday (well, today if you're living in the past like the USA) is/was International Mother Language Day, and I thought I'd write some thoughts about it. My mother tongue is English. I sometimes wish it wasn't, but it is just an accidence [sic]
Thesis
Most of my training in biblical studies occurred in a Reformed Protestant context, for which I am quite thankful. However, one of the problems of Protestant perspectives on early church history is a tendency to think, "right doctrines, dodgy exegesis". The narrative constructed is that the early church
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A few days ago this post appeared highlighting a new feature for Logos users, at least those on the subscription Logos Now model (which I am not). As a big advocate of reader's editions for students to move into more fluent and extended reading, I was pleased to
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Hi, I'm Seumas and I'm a chronic codeswitcher. Code-switching occurs when a speaker alternates between two or more languages or language varieties in a single discourse event. It's not a bad thing necessarily, indeed when I was in Mongolia and speaking with competent
Greek
This past week I’ve been leading a small group (quite small!) through the 2nd century text, ‘The Acts of Paul and Thecla’. It’s a very interesting text which relates the story of how a young betrothed woman in Iconium meets Paul, becomes entranced by the teaching of Christ,
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Perhaps not the most common myths about Christmas, but these are the ones I regularly have to interact with online. 1. Christmas is a Christianisation of celebrations for Sol Invictus Given that the first indisputable dating for Christmas to Dec 25th is the same document (the Chronicon of 354) that
Greek
Here's the shortest case I can make. There are, depending on edition, 138,020 Greek words in the New Testament canon. Here are some comparable English works: 134,462 - The Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien 134,710 - Schindler's List, Thomas Keneally 135,420