Greek
The late Rod Decker was a fine and outstanding academic, teacher, and although I never met him or had any interaction beyond his writings, I held him in considerable respect. His passing earlier this year was a loss for us, but great gain for him! I was grateful, then, that
Updates
I have to say, this has probably been the least productive month on record for quite a while here at The Patrologist. Greek Natural Reader No progress Patristic Readers Still negotiating with a graphic designer to do the cover for the first print edition. Minimal progress on the second text.
Greek
Today I share with you two more videos showcasing and teaching Koine Greek through Where are your Keys? 1. Lesson 2 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwA5OMaE5xU] 2. Lesson 3 [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcHm_SOokBY]
Greek
I have talked several times about Where are your Keys? and encouraged you to check it out. This week I started recording and uploading a series of videos to demonstrate or showcase how WAYK can work for Koine Greek. In this post I link to the first two videos, and
Theology Thursday
Last week I wrote a little bit about the challenges facing higher education institutions, especially seminaries, and the future of such institutions as places. In this post I want to explore four things that I think are necessary ‘re-adjustments’ to our thinking, especially about seminaries, if they are to
Language
A little while ago there was an exchange that started on B-Greek, a place I generally read but do not interact, about Exegesis. Then there were a few blog posts, one by D. Streett, one by B. Hofstetter. I often deliberately don’t engage in discussions that I don’
Greek
Well, I have pretty much wrapped this series of posts up, though I won’t rule out adding some future interviews to it. I thought I’d take a moment to reflect on some things from the Interviews. Although my interviews included some ‘clusters’, e.g. those involved or trained
Theology Thursday
Today I want to talk a little bit about educational models, ‘distance ed’, the 1/8th second barrier, etc., etc.. One of the mainstays of tertiary education for a good two hundred years has been the model of a single professor presenting information via a lecture to a group of
Language
Why bother doing anything but the best types of language acquisition activities? I’m a firm believer in Comprehensible Input, and fairly sold on Krashen et al., that CI is the key to language acquisition. I don’t quite buy Krashen’s “strong” version that nothing but CI is necessary,
Language
Q: Patrologist, why do you talk so endlessly about language acquisition? A: Because our field is so broken. In no other field do so many people who know their target language so poorly talk with such authority. I honestly wish it wasn’t necessary, that we rather lived in a
Greek
Fridays are generally for specific language posts: Greek and Latin. Maybe some others thrown in from time to time. One of the things it can be hard to learn in a language is things like ‘days of the week’. Actually, if you are using the language daily in communication, these
Language
1. Like most places, Classics and Biblical studies are dominated by teachers who didn't train in language teaching, know little about language acquisition, and never acquired an active ability in their chosen languages. 2. The population is comparatively small. 3. Modern language teaching in Australia does not have