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Category Archives: Greek Pedagogy
Greek Immersion in the Seminary Curriculum–What’s Needed to Make it Work? (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 7)
About the Series This is part 7 in a series of posts laying out the problems with typical Koine Greek teaching methods and proposing a reformation in pedagogy. In my last post, I noted the rise of the “tools” approach … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged Basics of Greek Pedagogy, Biblical Greek, Curriculum, Modern Languages, Seminaries, Teaching Greek
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Bible Software, Greek Tools, and a Future for Immersion (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 6)
About the Series This is part 6 in a series of posts laying out the problems with typical Koine Greek teaching methods and proposing a reformation in pedagogy. In the last post, I discussed the amount of time it takes to … Continue reading
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Tagged Basics of Greek Pedagogy, Bible Software, Curriculum, Fluency, Proficiency, Tools
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David Alan Black On the Generational Shift in Greek Pedagogy
I am very honored by the recent comments on David Alan Black’s blog. At 6:16 on 9/15/11 he posted: 6:16 PM A groundbreaking new website has been launched by one of our Southeastern grads. It’s all about Greek and especially … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged David Alan Black, Endorsements, Greek Pedagogy, Resources
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Brian Schultz on Reading Fluency in Hebrew and Greek
Brian Schultz, who teaches Biblical Hebrew communicately at Fresno Pacific University and is just an all-around nice guy, has posted some thoughts on what constitutes reading fluency and what helps or hinders its development. Check them out here. They dovetail rather … Continue reading
How Long, O Lord, Until I Know Greek? (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 5)
About the Series This is part 5 in a series of posts laying out the problems with typical Koine Greek teaching methods and proposing a reformation in pedagogy. Part 1 talked about what it means to read Greek or any other … Continue reading
The Oral/Aural Foundations of Reading (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 4)
About the Series This is part 4 in a series of posts laying out the problems with typical Koine Greek teaching methods and proposing a reformation in pedagogy. Part 1 talked about what it means to read Greek or any … Continue reading
Greek Professors: Do They Know Greek? (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 3)
About the Series This is part 3 in a series of posts laying out the problems with typical Koine Greek teaching methods and proposing a reformation in pedagogy. Part 1 talked about what it means to read Greek or any … Continue reading
Posted in Greek Pedagogy
Tagged Basics of Greek Pedagogy, ETS, Koine Greek, New Testament Greek, Professors, Proficiency, Reading Greek, Vocabulary
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The Man Behind the Curtain—Or, The Dirty Truth About Most New Testament Greek Classes (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 2)
About the Series This is part 2 in a series of posts laying out the problems with traditional Koine Greek teaching methods (though we will soon have opportunity to question just how “traditional” they really are in the broader scope … Continue reading
What Does it Mean to “Read” Greek? (Basics of Greek Pedagogy, pt. 1)
By far the most common objection to oral/aural methods for teaching ancient Greek is the following: Greek is a dead language. We will never need to speak ancient Greek, so why should we waste time listening to and speaking it when … Continue reading
A Recent News Article on Oral Methods for Teaching Greek
Check out this recent article about my Greek teaching methods. It was published in May in the Southern Baptist Texan (the denominational state newspaper: DALLAS—Easter and Christmas pageants in ancient Greek? Texas college students texting each other in the language … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Greek Pedagogy, Introductory Posts
Tagged Criswell College, John Schwandt, News, Publicity, SBTC
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