Ancient Greek, mostly Hellenistic
Over the past few months two different readers have contacted me to ask about the question of punctuation in Matthew 24:5, specifically about the quotation marks usually found there. I have written a fair amount on this blog about the lack of punctuation in Ancient Greek, including quotation marks, and this has spawned a fair Continue reading "Matthew 24:5 and the Question of Punctuation" The post…
Here is a slightly different kind of picture-based exercise from the online grammar. It presents pictures and asks the user to input an appropriate Greek word from a list of options. Here are the words for this one: If you can look at each image and think of the appropriate Greek word without translating that Continue reading "Another update from the Online Greek Grammar: Authentic Language…
Try to match Greek words to images without translating those words into English. You can find this brief exercise in lesson 24 at HellenisticGreek.com. While the grammar found there focusses heavily on translation, in recognition that the primary goal of many who set out to learn Hellenistic Greek is to learn to translate Greek into Continue reading "Match images to words without translating…
I recently had the opportunity to provide professional development (PD) to all of the principals in a local school system. The objective of the PD was to make them aware of the experience of newcomers in their schools—students who arrive in the US understanding no English—and demonstrate ways teachers need to be adapting instruction for Continue reading "Teaching Ancient Greek in Greek: A Recent…
I have added two new exercises to lesson one of the online grammar. One is a matching game in which you match Greek words to their English counterparts. The other is a memory game where you match Greek words to images illustrating their meaning. Have fun! The post New exercises (games?) for lesson one first appeared on Greek Language and Linguistics .
Today I added FreeGreek.online to the Learn Ancient Greek page. The series of videos entitled Alpha with Angela, freely available through YouTube, provides a very competent example of teaching the language using a communicative approach. Of course, as with any video based course, it is not completely communicative given that the user cannot respond in Continue reading "Acquire Hellenistic Greek:…
The post below was originally published in 2017. It was among a large number of posts that were lost for several years, and I recently recovered it. I have added a brief comment below after the republished post. In the first issue of the Journal of Greek Linguistics of 2017, Klaas Bentein examined changes in Continue reading "Changes in complement structure from Classical to Byzantine Greek" The…
Today I added two items to the bibliography at Greek-Language.com. One was a paper by Paul Danove that has been around since 2013, but I have failed to add it. My apologies to Paul! Danove, Paul, A comparison of the usages of δίδωμι and ἀποδίδωμι compounds in the Septuagint and the New Testament in Stanley Continue reading "Two Items Added to the Bibliography" The post Two Items Added to the…
A number of highly important words in translations of the Bible are in fact not translated at all, but merely transliterated. A translation is a rendering of the meaning of a text into a different language. A transliteration does not render the meaning of the word into the other language, but only represents its sound. βασιλεύς, for Continue reading "Transliteration versus Translation" The post…
I recently gave a presentation to a group of parents of school children enrolled in Chatham County Schools English Language Acquisition program. They wanted to know how children qualify for help acquiring English, how the program works once they qualify, how they exit the program when their English is good enough, etc. In answering that Continue reading "BICS, CALP and what they mean for Acquiring…