“Why Biblical Greek?” Part Three

If you haven't seen the first posts in this series, you can check them out here and here. In this post, we unpack Angle 3: So much of English grammar and vocabulary (like medical terminology!) is borrowed from ancient languages like Greek and Latin, so you never know when it might come in handy. Also, …

“Why Biblical Greek?” Part Two

If you haven't seen the first posts in this series, you can check them out here and here. Special thanks to Andrew for this post! In this post, we unpack Angle 2: Reading anything as a translation limits the ability to pick up on subtle nuances and distances the reader from the writer and world …

“Why Biblical Greek?” Part One

In this post, written by Brother Daniel Smith, we unpack the first angle in this series. Angle 1: Many of the translations of the NT that we have in English are good translations, but there are many nuances and grammatical constructions that cannot be translated into good, natural English. In essence, learn Greek to enhance …

“Why Biblical Greek?” Foundation

Several months ago, I made a post about the Biblical Greek Program I'm part of. I posted some pictures of Bible passages/stories we were acting out, and I included a link to the BGP website. Not too long after that, my brother Andrew did a guest post on my blog about how he got into …

Biblical Greek Program

I'm currently on a two week break between semesters of nursing school, which are filled with the final two weeks of the two year Biblical Greek program. I'm just going to share a few pictures from this week with an explanation of what's going on. Acts 12:1-19 - Reading the story of the apostle Peter's …

My Trip To North Dakota

(Please pardon the poor quality pics. My phone takes terrible pics, and I didn't have my camera with me.) When my brother Andrew was first going to the Summer Institute of Linguistics six years ago, Uncle Dennis teased him that there really is no North Dakota. "Have you ever been to North Dakota?"... "Have you …