Mounce on Greek and Hebrew

I recently came across Mounce’s website.  He has some excellent helps on it for learning the Biblical languages.  You can download the fonts from it to type in Greek and Hebrew.  Check it out.   

Reading the Bible in color

Learning Greek and Hebrew this semester has really been a privilege.  In the past, I thought, “Now that we have so many great English translations of the Bible, why do we even need to learn the original languages?” 
Yet learning to read the Bible in the original languages adds so much to our understanding of Scripture.  It’s like [...]

First week

So I just spent my first week back to school.  It’s been three years since I’ve had any college classes.  I’m kind of out of the loop.   Since I’m mostly taking languages courses, my classes are filled with undergrads, who are about 8 or 9 years younger than me.  I’m feeling sorta old. 
I really like [...]

John 1:1-4 in Greek

The first assignment in my Greek class was to learn how to sound out all the letters and diphthongs.  Then we are to practice reading out land John 1:1-4.  I guess that it doesn’t matter that we can’t understand it all yet.  Here’s the passage.

Greek and Hebrew

So I went to my first Greek and Hebrew classes today.   I was a little bit worried going into them that I’m going to have problems mixing them up; however, the classes are quite a bit different.  The teachers have completely different styles.   The Greek teacher seems pretty traditional in style; while the Hebrew teacher is [...]

Learning Hebrew

In order to get ready for the fall, I’ve started working on Hebrew.  I’m hoping that I’ll get a headstart.  Unfortunately, I’ll be trying to learn both Greek and Hebrew during the same semester.  I’m using a computer program called Hebrew Tutor.  It’s ok, but I’m sure that the program’s a little too old for [...]