Advanced Bible Studies using Church Greek
I am developing a weekend seminar to teach people my advanced Bible study method (“Phrasing”) using “Church Greek.” Many churches have groups of people wanting to learn Greek, but what they really want to learn is enough Greek to use the biblical tools intelligently so they can better study their Bibles. The details that cannot be covered in a weekend are discussed in my online class at teknia.com/church-greek.
This is the goal of my Church Greek Seminar.
- Teach enough Greek so you can use the Greek tools.
- Learn why Bibles are the same and are different.
- Learn how to use an interlinear.
- Learn how to do a Greek word study.
- Learn how to use Phrasing to pull a New Testament passage apart and come to a deeper understanding of the biblical text.
- Learn the Greek alphabet using my online lecture. It is fun and easy. If you want a less traditional approach, you can use my KidsGreek.com site.
- Read parts of my Greek for the Rest of Us.
- Greek noun system.
- How to use an interlinear.
- Why translations do what they do.
- Greek verb system.
- An introduction to phrasing (our advanced Bible study system).
- How to use a word dictionary.
- Greek sentence system.
- Watching phrasing unpack the message of Jude.
- shows how to move from text to sermon,
- and serves as an encouragement to the rest of the church that they too can learn to study their Bible.
To prepare, you will:
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Sunday morning's sermon
I have spent most of my professional career teaching and writing on this topic, and now this seminar allows you the chance to learn these important skills.
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Back from the CBT
I am just back from three weeks locked away in Whistler, Canada, with the rest of the CBT (Committee on Bible Translation). Three weeks of discussing, agreeing, and sometimes disagreeing on the nuances of the meaning of words and the meaning of biblical passages. It doesn't get any better than that!
Well, perhaps a week in Switzerland would be better.
It was a really good time. Some of the committee members I had only known from a distance. Some I had known through my dad since his Bethel days. One I lived with in graduate school (Craig Blomberg). And others were brand new friends.
What was most educational was to see how dynamic translation works, first hand. From my years on the ESV I had gained an appreciation for formal equivalent translation, but to actually be part of a dynamic translation (okay, "functional equivalence") was a great teacher. I watched godly men and women struggle, sometimes agonize, over just the right wording so the NIV would faithfully convey the same meaning as intended by the biblical author. Whoever says dynamic translators have a lower view of Scripture needs to sit behind the veil and watch this group work.
What was amazing -- and I didn't realize this at first -- was that some of these translators defined "dynamic translation" for my generation, as the NIV is the quintessential and defining example of functional equivalence. I heard stories of the 1970's where these translators spent 10 weeks at a time creating the NIV. It was humbling to think that I get to sit and work with them.
Thank you for all your prayers for all the CBT. I am anxious to get blogging again in September. I have a whole new set of questions to ruminate on.
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