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Daniel R. Streett, Ph.D.
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Author Archives: Daniel R. Streett
Online Living Greek Course Opportunity
My readers may be interested in the Greek course offered by the Catholic Education Center. They will be using Randall Buth’s materials for their textbook and living language methods for their instruction. It looks like they hope eventually to offer … Continue reading
Naming the Movement
Every Movement Needs a Name I have often wondered how to name the movement (of which I am a part) to teach Koine Greek as a living language. I think every movement needs a good tag to be successful, one … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged Communicative Language Teaching, Fluency, Krashen, Names, Natural Language Learning, Reading Fluency
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Setting the Bar at Fluency, pt. 1 (SBL 2012 Report)
This post is the third post in my report on the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, held Nov 17-20 in Chicago. Here are the first and second parts. In its second session, our Applied Linguistics group hosted a panel to address the question, “Where should we … Continue reading
Chameleon (Greek Word of the Week)
Perhaps there are a few of you in this club cultured enough to understand the link between the pic on the left and this week’s Greek WOTW. In case you’re a man without conviction or a man who doesn’t know, … Continue reading
Posted in Word of the Week
Tagged Animal-style mohawks, Boy George, Chameleons, Karma, Word of the Week
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Where Should We Set the Bar in Biblical Language Training? (SBL 2012 Report)
This post is part 2 of my report on the the annual meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, held Nov 17-20 in Chicago. Here is the first part. In its second session, our Applied Linguistics group hosted a panel to address the question, “Where should we … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged Ancient Greek, Curriculum, ETS, Goals, Greek Pedagogy, New Testament Greek, SBL, Seminaries, Society of Biblical Literature
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New Testament Read with Modern Greek Pronunciation – FREE!
If you’re interested in listening to the NT in Greek, and if you prefer a modern pronunciation, you’ll want to check out the new (to me, anyway) FREE resource at Bible.is. It’s the entire NT in Koine Greek
Christmas Trees in Ancient Greek
How can you talk about your χ-mas tree in Koine Greek? As is often the case, so as not to reinvent the τροχός, it’s good to see what Modern Greek uses for ‘Christmas tree.’ MGk uses τὸ ἔλατο. In fact, you can listen … Continue reading
Posted in Word of the Week
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Carol, Christmas Tree, Christmas Tree in Greek
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New Volume of Inscriptions and Papyri from Eerdmans
Eerdmans has just released the 10th volume in its NDIEC series. That stands for New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity. The editors of this series comb through all the published inscriptions and papyri and select the ones they think are most relevant to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Notices
Tagged Eerdmans, Inscriptions, itacism, Papyri, Pronunciation of Greek
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