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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 - A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
138,098 - Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
138,138 - 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Jules Verne

Would you really trust the interpretive abilities of someone whose entire knowledge of English was limited to reading one of these novels, and who had never read anything in English apart from their selected novel?

Welcome

This is The Patrologist, the new but old site by Seumas Macdonald. I have a bit of tidying to do and making things more functional, but you can look forward to posts on language acquisition, ancient Greek and Latin, classics and patristics, and similar related topics. In the meantime you

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Next in my series of things to share and tell you I'm excited about, Kevilex. (Just to be clear, this post is in no way sponsored by Kevilex. I just appreciate it so much I decided to tell you about it all). So excited, I made a whole

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Welcome

What's worth doing: between the gym and the factory floor

Whither the humanities

Kevilex: An online Ancient Greek reading platform