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Students of mine will know my predilection to call the θη forms of the so-called 'aorist passive' instead 'theta-eta middles'. In today's post, I want to explore how this understanding of the middle helps us make better sense of biblical texts. In
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I just want to float the idea here of something I have tried more than once to get up and running, but never really gotten the uptake. But essentially I would really love to get a reading-group / masterclass going that read Greek Patristic texts. It's hard work
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I recently was interviewed by Fletcher Hardison on his podcast series "Greeking Out", which you can listen to here. Fletcher did a previous interview with me about 4.5 years ago, so it makes interesting reflection on what's changed in my life, and the Greek-educational
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We've been a bit quiet here.I think my days of blogging constantly and consistently about SLA and historical languages has simmered down a lot. I'm less worked up about all the people doing it wrong, and feel like I've talked over a lot
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Well, we are back with a new set of classes beginning on October 8th. I have a relatively limited range of classes for the upcoming term, but I hope there's something you will like and enjoy. New 101 cohorts in Latin and Greek will start in the new
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I've been reading through Plato's Lysis this teaching term, and it's a great deal of fun, and quite interesting. One of the things I've noted is the difficulty we have of teasing out two senses of φίλος, and I feel like Socrates
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Hi all! I know we have been for the most part quiet on this blog. Various projects continue to tick away. But this post is to let you know about the upcoming classes I'll be teaching, including new beginner cohorts for Greek and Latin. These start the week
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It's perhaps the trickiest phrase (at least language-wise) in the Lord's Prayer: τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον (Mt 6:11.) And what on earth does ἐπιούσιον mean? It's not at all helped by the fact that this word only turns
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ΛΟΓΟΣ : ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΓΛΩΣΣΑ ΑΥΤΟΕΙΚΟΝΟΓΡΑΦΗΜΕΝΗ (Logos. Lingua Graeca Per Se Illustrata) by Santiago Carbonell Martínez ISBN: 978-84-945346-6-9 (Available from Libreria Aurea. I purchased mine via amazon.es) Note: there is a resource site with a large number of auxiliary resources, which I have not reviewed here. But
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I recently tweeted (yes, that dying star-system) that I had recognised an allusion to Plato's Timaeus while reading Athanasius recently. I don't at all think that I am the first to notice this particular allusion, but it was a thrill to recognise it just from
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Well, it's coming up towards the end of our teaching term at #SeumasU, and we're looking ahead to the next term (starts Apr 23rd). If you haven't heard about upcoming classes somewhere else yet, here's what we're teaching: Beginner Greek
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I started offering SeumasU classes (not by that name!) in 2019. I went full-time (ish), ditching my other work in 2020 thanks to the pandemic. So I'm now steaming and streaming into my 4th year of trying to teach somewhat-more-communicatively, online, as a full-time