How to Improve Your Languages with a Parallel Bible
5 tips to get the most out of your parallel Bible.
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How to Read the Bible Devotionally in the Original Languages
5 tips for using your time in the Greek New Testament to deepen your relationship with God.
Why You Should be Familiar with Your Greek New Testament
And it’s probably not the reasons you think.
Keep Your Greek: Get the Best Resources
The first step to keeping your Greek is to choose the right Greek Bible. Beyond this, there are many other ways to help keep your Greek, one of the most important being that you get the best resources. There are different types of resources, and it’s great to have a couple in each category within reach at your desk….
Keep Your Greek: Reading Greek Devotionally
Many students wonder how to stay in their Greek New Testament consistently after finishing their Greek courses. Of course some upper level courses will utilize Greek or require translation, especially if you take a Greek elective. You will also need ways to keep up with your vocab and you will need to create a plan to read through books of the Bible. But, there is no better way to consistently enter the Greek New Testament than to integrate it into your daily devotional reading….
Keep Your Greek: Taking Greek Electives
When I was doing my MDiv, I had a good amount of elective hours: 18 if I remember correctly. Those are a precious 18 hours. For better or for worse, I had different goals in my first two years of my MDiv. I came to seminary probably wanting to pastor, and pretty quickly gained a passion for church planting. I was excited to study hard, prepare for church planting, and pastor a church that was faithful to the biblical picture for the church (whatever that is!). Now here I am, completing my dissertation in a PhD program in hermeneutics and teaching Greek and New Testament courses. That’s quite a distance from planting a church….
Keep Your Greek: Don’t Lose Your Vocabulary
For some students, learning vocabulary is a breeze. For others, it’s like pulling teeth. Brains are simply wired differently and memorizing vocabulary will be easier for some than for others. The same is true for keeping your vocabulary. Just because you memorized words once for that final exam does not at all mean you will remember them. In fact, vocabulary probably slips away faster than other parts of the language, such as grammar and syntax. You will probably always remember that a subject is generally in the nominative case, and that an adverbial participle modifies a verb, but you may quickly forget what θηρίον means….
Keep Your Greek: Choose the Right Bible
There are several different types of Greek Bibles and all have strengths and weaknesses–for both the disciplined and the undisciplined among us.