{"id":1815,"date":"2011-03-01T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisrestlesspilgrim.wordpress.com\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:33:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:33:19","slug":"its-all-greek-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/01\/its-all-greek-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all Greek to me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1823 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pp52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pp52.jpg 200w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pp52-190x300.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/>Okay, I know this title is an incredibly obvious pun (and far below my usual, high standards), but I thought I would make it now before anyone else did. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>As most of my friends know, I&#8217;ve been wanting to study New Testament Greek for some time.\u00a0However, this has been easier said than done. For a start, my geographical wanderings in recent years have made committing to a course of study difficult. Also, finding somewhere that teaches New Testament Greek is not such a simple task as one might imagine and finding one which is cost-effective only adds to the fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I began my <em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Introduction to the New Testament&#8221;<\/span><\/em> course about a month ago at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diocese-sdiego.org\/PastoralCenter.htm\">Pastoral Center<\/a> I asked the instructor for suggestions as to how I could bring this desire to learn Biblical Greek to fruition. He suggested that I:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\">1. Contact\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seminary.bethel.edu\/\">Bethel Seminary<\/a><br \/>\n2. Learn using a self-study course<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I followed his advice and contacted Bethel Seminary and it turns out that I can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2081881_audit-class.html\">audit<\/a> their New Testament Greek course fairly inexpensively. I&#8217;m filling out an application for the course and it starts in September &#8211; score!<\/p>\n<p>Since I have a bit of time before September I decided to get ahead of the game and follow my instructor&#8217;s second piece of advice. I had recently been given an old copy of a NT Greek instructional book and I decided to supplement it with the videos from \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/learngreekfree.com\/\">LearnGreekForFree.com<\/a>. I&#8217;ve interacted with the course&#8217;s teacher, D. Eric Williams, a couple of times over email and he&#8217;s been helpful in clearing up a few of my issues.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been studying Greek now for a couple of weeks and I&#8217;m really enjoying it. I&#8217;ve already found an interesting tidbit or two worth sharing, but that&#8217;ll have to wait for another post&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1818\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1818\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1818\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/imag0522.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/imag0522.jpg 390w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/imag0522-179x300.jpg 179w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I dont often go to parties&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I know this title is an incredibly obvious pun (and far below my usual, high standards), but I thought I would make it now before anyone else did. \ud83d\ude42 As most of my friends know, I&#8217;ve been wanting to study New Testament Greek for some time.\u00a0However, this has been easier said than done. For a start, my geographical wanderings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[2969,74],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-featured","tag-greek"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56309,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/56309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}