Friday, June 01, 2007
A Greek Vacation
I am submerging in Greek!!! Learning Greek is fun and pleasurable. Not an easy language to learn nor the easiest. This summer I am auditing a class in Elementary Greek New Testament, to be more precise it is actually New Testament Elementary Koine Greek. Koine Greek or "common Greek" refers to the Greek language that emerged in the post classical antiquity (c.300BC-AD 300) spread during the conquest of Alexander the Great! I am learning keywords from the Greek biblical version of the new testament. It is not easy nor simple. I have not been back to School for the past 10 years and it is taking a toll on me. However, it excites me enormously and it makes me focus because it is God's Word in another language. It enriches me as I am learning a few words for now but hopefully I will amass a few hundred word to be able to understand basic Greek. και Θεός ην ό λογος - "and the Word was God"