Greek - The Patrologist (Page 3)

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An entrée into the world of 18th and 19th century Greek textbooks

Let me tell you about a little side-project I'm cooking up. One of the great advantages Latin students have in seeking a lot of reading content, is that between the easy reading material that some Latin teachers are pumping out, and the products of the Direct Method,

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Parse + Translate ≠ Reading

Recently I was reading an introductory Greek grammar for which the 'reading' exercise had the instructions (non verbatim): 1. Read aloud 2. Parse all words fully 3. Translate Firstly, commendable at all that "read aloud" is an instruction at all. But as usual I think this

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Adventures in LSJ: From J to Cypriot Epigraphy

One of the many current things occupying my overfull plate is trawling through betacode entries of LSJ headwords to sort out things that are 'odd'. And LSJ has some odd things. Like pe/dijos Why is there a j there? That ain't no Greek letter. So

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Digital Nyssa Project: From OCR to Plain Text

So the first step in my project is getting from a print text to a digital text. There are a few options for doing OCR. Bruce Robertson at Mt. Allison University is involved in LACE: Greek OCR, a large scale project to produce high quality OCR of ancient Greek texts.

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Translation is not meaning

One of the downsides of training students to translate in order to understand, is that they very often develop the erroneous notion that translation is meaning. "The meaning of Greek word X is English word Y", or slightly more complex versions of the same. No, no, no. Greek

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Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic Greek

Well let's have another brief review, shall we? Mastronarde's Introduction to Attic Greek dates back to 1993, at least, and has long been in use at UC Berkeley, and elsewhere. A second edition was released in 2013, though I am only familiar with the first edition.

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Hansen and Quinn, An Intensive Course: an even briefer review

The copy I have of this, from the library is from 1980 and is described as a “Preliminary Edition.” A quick look at Amazon tells me that there is a 2nd Revised edition from 1992 though I can’t comment on what changes were made. Originally written for Summer Greek

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Reading Greek: a review

A short foreword: I thought, thanks to a suggestion, that I'd start blogging my way through reviews of introductory materials in Greek and Latin. I don't pretend to thoroughness or rigour, just my thoughts on textbooks and readers I've dealt with in some way

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Is over-interpretation a product of grammar based instruction?

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

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Semi-regular rant on Greek language pedagogy

(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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The Acts of (Paul) and Thecla: a romance about chastity

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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Why you need to read outside the NT corpus

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