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Part 3 of our ongoing series (1 and 2) Monogenes and the Hebrew Bible We turn now to consider the usage of μονογενής in the LXX, its relation to the Hebrew word yachid (יָחִיד), and the reverse relation of yachid to ἀγαπητός. The LXX has ten occurrences of
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This is the second in our series examining the word μονογενής. We not turn out attention to the range of usage across Greek authors and literature. 8th to 6th Century The term μονογενής does not appear frequently in early Greek literature, with three instances in Hesiod, two in Aesop, and
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This is one more in my ‘common objections’ to communicative approaches. And it was occasioned by @MetalClassicist, referencing this thread. I've not tried to directly address that thread, but somewhat more a general treatment of this topic. Firstly, let me acknowledge that plenty of “CI-folks” can be
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(This is the first in a series of posts in which I will extensively review the word μονογενής in Greek literature up to the 1st century CE, in the context of debates about its meaning in the Gospel of John, as well as Patristic usage of the term in the
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In this final part of our series, Gregory Stringer and I offer our reflections and some of our strategies in responding to the challenges and difficulties presented in part two of our series. (See also parts 1, 2b, and 3). As we teach in two different contexts (online synchronous small-
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In this post Gregory Stringer and I offer our reflections and some of our strategies in responding to the challenges and difficulties presented in part one of this series. As we teach in two different contexts (online synchronous small-group instruction of adults for myself, a US High School for
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[Seumas: There's always a danger of saying too much, of trying to add words upon words upon words. However, I think a preface to the following post is deserving. In part one I laid out some of the language oriented problems in LLPSI, in part two Gregory Stringer
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Today we have a guess post by Gregory Stringer, written with some input from myself. As discussed in Part I, LLPSI is an outstanding language teaching and learning tool. And also, it is not without flaws in terms of both language instruction and content. In Part I we looked at
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(This post co-written with Gregory Stringer) I (Seumas) am happily on record, and will continue to say, that Ørberg's Lingua Latina per se Illustrata, and in particular volume 1, Familia Romana, is one of the best language textbooks in any language. Not just that, but it is
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Yes, but that's okay. In the comments on my recent post about Authentic Language, Alan Wood asks, "What difference does it make that we largely have ‘writing patterns’ rather than ‘speech patterns’?" I think this is neither a feature nor a bug, just a given, of
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Yet another part of our series on objections to communicative methods One objection that you sometimes hear to more communicative methods is that those who are using historical languages productively will ‘get it wrong’ and thus be creating unrepresentative/incorrect language data for learners. This is another in my And
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Part of an ongoing series on objections to communicative methods In my last post on these three inter-connected questions (those who don’t want to speak), I discussed the issue of those who object to the ‘content’ of communicative approaches – e.g. the desire not to speak about daily