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- Any musicians out there? We could use some more Greek songs for class. Our students love using the "body parts" song and 2 hymns (ιδιτε ποταπην αγαπην and τα ελη σου, κυριε, both thanks to the Biblical Languages Center) in our first 3 week intensive. I also tried to obtain a modern Greek hymnal during my last stay in Greece, but struck out. Apparently they restrict themselves mainly to the hymns in the liturgy. Has anyone been more successful? Also, if anyone has a good musician among their students/co-instructors, urge them to produce a Greek equivalent to this Latin song on the personal pronouns. The snappy melody (and even the English explanation and subtitles) make this something students would appreciate and learn from. Check out his other Latin offerings on his HI PAWS Youtube site.Latin Personal Pronoun Songsupport this channel: https://www.patreon.com/HIPAWS song available for download/streaming in high quality format: https://hipaws.bandcamp.com This is a vide...www.youtube.com
- I too would love to have more songs. In addition to the song of Seikilos (hear tune here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RjBePQV4xE and article here: https://allthatsinteresting.com/seikilos-epitaph), I teach my students the Greek names of the days of the week to the tune of "The Addams Family" theme: Ἡλίου καὶ Σελήνης Ἄρεως καὶ Ἑρμοῦ Δίος, Ἀφροδίτης καὶ ἡ Χρόνου Sun's (day) and Moon's (day) Ares' (day) and Hermes' (day) Zeus' (day), Aphrodite's (day) and the (day) of Chronos.
- Some of the NT hymns could be included as well, with made up melodies.
- Friends, here is a fun and funny story you can use: https://amber.faithlife.com/shares/4Dw4fZnbmDQonOXg. The names of the dog and cat are authentic animal names from antiquity. It can be does entirely with props in story telling, or students can act it out (again, props are helpful). I would love to hear if you use it.
- I have posted a PDF of the Apostles' Creed as we use it in our beginning biblical Greek intensive class. https://amber.faithlife.com/shares/ie1vLXxtZPrl2o4i. Beginning in week 2 we work through the text. Since some of our students, especially those with little experience with alphabetic written languages, have trouble learning to read, we added the second line to help them learn to pronounce as they read. We post an MP3 file so they can practice on their own. By week 3 we incorporate this into our morning devotion. (A great text for aorist passive participles by the way.) We (thanks to my colleague Michael Smith for this) recently noted an interesting issue in the Greek version. The version I originally picked up from somewhere, is similar to that of Rod Decker in his "Koine Greek Reader." The "Third Article" begins with Πιστεύω εἰς τὸ ἅγιον τὸ πνεῦμα. This would be odd Greek. As we would expect εἰς τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα or the more common εἰς τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅιαν. The latter is what is found in the Greek version of the "Book of Common Prayer" (London, 1923). The earliest version of the creed known is in a Greek letter of Marcellus of Ancyra to Julius I of Rome (AD 341), and that letter uses τὸ ἅγιον πνεῦμα (cf. my edition in "The Correspondence of Pope Julius I," Cath. Univ. of Amer. Press, 2015). So you can take your pick, but I have abandoned what I (and Decker) originally had in favor of τὸ ἅγιον τὸ πνεῦμα.Apostles Creed - RevisedAposltes' Creed in Greekamber.faithlife.com
- This is great! Thanks, Glen. Your text discussion was nice, too.
- I have used the Apostle's Creed before, as well, but not the last one. It's a great text. I think I'll work it in again.
- Dear friends, I'm a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL), and receive good resources and ideas. On this link, https://wlclassroom.com/2019/06/01/research/, a list of categories was given in the margin. I thought that when we make posts, we could begin each post with one of these category names: (1) Activities and Games, (2) Classroom Procedures, (3) Cultural Exploration, (4) Grammar and Structures, (5) Listening, (6) Online Activities, (7) Reading, (8) Slideshare Presentations, (9) SPeaking, (10) Teaching Methodology and and Research, (11) Technology, (12) Uncategorized, (13) Writing. Please note that Assessment is an important component that applies to numerous categories. Hope you are having a great summer!How Can Teachers Use Research to Guide Their Language Teaching?I like a good story. Stories are interesting, intriguing and often capture and maintain our interest. While I enjoy a good story or pleasant anecdote, I need more than a story of success and sugg…wlclassroom.com
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- The latest SBL book reviews included: Dan Nasselqvist, Public Reading in Early Christianity: Lectors, Manuscripts, and Sound in the Oral Delivery of John 1-4; Novum Testamentum, Supplements 163 (ISBN: 9789004306295) Brill, 2015. This Lund (Sweden) Ph.D. dissertation tries to show that it is not useful to see a dichotomy between studying texts as literary units to be studied or texts to be performed. But that the usages in the ancient world were varied and complex. The review by Peter Perry is excellent. He summarizes the authors proposed methodology for analyzing texts as follows: "The method involves five steps that are helpfully outlined in appendix 9: delimiting cola, identifying periods, identifying sound patterns, describing the sound quality, and analyzing aural intensity. A colon is a statement that can be uttered in a single breath. A period is an artistic arrangement of cola that connects the end of the period to its beginning by sound or syntax. Sound patterns may include repetition or variation of sounds, words, or themes. Sound qualities are sounds that are pleasing or dissonant to an audience; Greek and Roman authors often found clashes of vowels (hiatus), hissing sounds, and clashes of consonants disagreeable. The final step aggregates the above features to classify a passage as either high, medium, or low aural intensity. Nässelqvist suggests that passages with high aural intensity are ones that an ancient lector would likely have emphasized in reading aloud and that an audience may have found to be most significant." Food for thought! I recommend the entire review, and will start saving to purchase the book (another Brill disaster -- $143 !!!).
- Nice! I may try to get the book ILL. It would be interesting to try to develop this degree of listening skills in students (and in teachers!).
- Thanks for the heads-up, Glen. Among much else, it sounds like Nasselqvist might help us expose and question the "print bias" with which we tend to approach texts from antiquity.
- One of my long-time goals has been to have my Biblical Language (BL) students communicate in writing and in synchronous speaking with students from another school. Is anyone else interested in doing so? Does anyone have any experience? (I have a little.) As for writing, a group chat could work (the "Group Chat" on this site might work). Zoom or other system would be nice for live interaction. The trick is finding things for them to talk about. Introducing oneself and describing interests is a good place to start. Any takers?
- Mine are in second year, but the interaction would be good. Would it be best to prep them beforehand, and then set up a time for them to discuss? What would be our role? Are you using στοῖχος for line/verse? What times are best? We meet 8 am (EST) MWF, or could we do some sort of scheduling program to figure out a good time?
- Yes, I think prepping them is most likely to allow for a range of engagement that will be meaningful. I have my students beginning an adaptation of τὸ διήγημα τοῦ Ζακχαῖου in Luke 19. Our class meets at 1:30pm EST, so this would probably need to be an out-of-class engagement, but I'm open to your suggestions. Yes, I've introduced στοῖχος. I'll post the material I provide my student on the Zaccheus story to the group since I can't seem to attach it here. How might this be used?
- Here's the link to the PDF of τὸ διήγημα τοῦ Ζακχαῖου: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw9Yr62ZGxpzWGJmdUJhUmFaQXM/view?usp=sharing. Errata welcome. BTW, I noticed a few glitches in my pronunciation in the embedded audio.
- Hello, biblical language enABLERs. I'm Ken Cherney and I teach courses in OT exegesis at Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. Full disclosure: I am Isaac's father and am married to Paul Nitz's sister. Very much looking forward to learning from all of you. !ברכות
- So glad to have you. We look forward to learning from each other.
- Dear teachers, here is a handout I give to Greek or Hebrew students for when they do grammar drills on their own. Right now I can only post an image of each of the pages. If you like these, images can be copied and pasted and printed for students. These are simply to give students something they can point to in drills. These work with pronouns, but also with verbs. Let me know if you try them.