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I’ve got 42 days until my final New Testament Greek exam. It’s open book. That means the expectations are higher. Kinda packing darkies, but prepared to bust my gut in prep.
So the 42 day bootcamp began today. I’ve got my 96 page exercise book ready to roll. I’m wearing an army print t-shirt to mark the day. Lots of pain ahead… bring it!
Here’s my tally sheet that’s pasted in the front: PDF; Excel.
I’ve got a greek exam on Verbal Aspect in a bit over a week. I found the verbal glossary at the back of Con’s book good for quick reference. So I typed it out.
Here it is: DOWNLOAD (pdf).
I’ve pretty much nailed this whole Verbal Aspect thing. This picture might help you.
If this post makes no sense to you – go read the Bible in English – start with Philippians.
Bill Mounce is a Greek Ninja. Of all the people who can kung-fu greek style – he’s one bad dude you don’t want to mess with (imagine if he and Con Campbell double teamed you!). He’s written a flippin’ sweet blog post on how to use Greek in the pulpit:
“Before the ESV was available, I used another translation that was a little freer in its translation philosophy. There were two Sundays in a row where I had to correct its interpretation to make what I thought was the true point of the passage. After the service a new Christian came to me and asked, “Can I not trust my Bible?” Ouch! So here is one of the big no-noes from the pulpit. Do not correct the English Bible. Ever! Never say, “the translators got this wrong.” The damage you can do to a person’s trust in Scripture is unimaginable.”
Read the whole thing. His post helps Pastors to not be jerks in the way they use greek from the pulpit – this is a must read for all wannabe preachers/greek ninjas. Seriously.
(h/t acl)
All exams are finished! Giddy up. This is really a post reminding me to do some holiday reading. Currently, I like Con Campbell because of his jazz. I’m psyching myself up to love him for his contribution to Biblical Greek grammar!
Con has a new book out – he guest blogged about it on the Zondervan Academic blog. It’s on Verbal Aspect. I’m hoping that reading the 5 posts below will be a good primer.
p.s. – I passed greek this year!!
Our Greek exam is 3 weeks away. We need to be able to translate a number of chunks from anywhere in Mark 1-4. To help familiarise myself with the text, I’ve been listening to the New American Standard Bible (the NASB is a clunky translation… perfect for our 1st year translations), while following along in my Greek New Testament. I figured this was better than simply trying to memorise the English!!
I’ve recorded myself (very) slowly reading Mark 1-4 in NASB. Feel free to use them if it’s helpful for you in preparing for the exam… or just have a laugh at the Central Coast Stoner-esque reading!
Reuben Salagaras has just made available some sweet sweet greek tools. There’s a whole bunch of gear that ties in with the Moore Greek and Hebrew courses on reubenland.com, my two favs:
Big shout out to Reuben and all the tech men who make this type of stuff available…
