[1]: http://www.kpmartin.com/files/class16-instruction.mp3
[2]: http://www.kpmartin.com/files/class16-homework.mp3
[3]: http://www.kpmartin.com/files/class16-reading.mp3
[4]: http://kpmartin.www62.a2hosting.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/lackey-moods.pdf

Another great class. Pete took us through an overview of “all” the verbal moods (well, the major four plus infinitive) to help us settle in on what the subjunctive mood was about. Good stuff. I’ll probably turn some of it into a PDF soon. (Done. See “update” below.)

I tore right through my first reading/translation verse of the night. Bam… nailed it. Yeah, I know, big whoop. Well, it is to me. :)

Doubling up on chapters again next week as we careen toward the end of the semester.

###Homework

– Read chapters 32-33
– Vocab for both (trivial)
– Wkbk: Parse 1-5 for each chapter
– Wkbk: Try to translate 1-5 for both (at least do 1-5 in 33)

###Preview

– What is infinitive and how is it formed
– Five ways infinitive is used
– What is imperative and how is it formed
– Understand **3rd** person imperative
– Five ways of saying “no” in Greek

###Recommendations

– P. H. Davids, *The First Epistle of Peter*, NICNT
– J. H. Elliott, *1 Peter*, Anchor
– J. R. Michaels, *1 Peter*, WBC
– E. G. Selwyn, *The First Epistle of St. Peter: The Greek Text with Introduction, Notes, and Essays*

###Audio!

Well, I initially did this for Nichole, but now that I’ve done it I think I’ll probably listen in again to a few parts: audio files! I recorded the class in three parts available here as MP3s: [instruction][1], [homework][2], [reading][3]. Please only download if you’re really going to listen. My server space is gratis and I don’t want to abuse the privilege. I only wired Pete, so you can barely hear our quesionts and comments, but that’s probably for the best, and his stuff is the good stuff anyway.

**UPDATE:** Here’s the [Greek Verb Moods chart][4] Pete made and was talking about during the “instruction” part of the class (mp3 available above).

Yep, 15th! Wow, it’s been a while since I blogged on the class. Been to busy simply trying to do the work. We finished verbs and just tonight finished participles. Had a nice eureka moment: the “noun part” of the participle is only necessary to identify the antecedent, and can be ignored after it’s served that purpose! I kept trying to squeeze a genitive key word in (for instance) and it just didn’t make sense. I finally get why.

Also, Mounce, in my opinion, talks backwards sometimes. He asks something like “why do we know it’s dative? Because of it’s function in a sentence!” Well, yeah, from the **writer’s** perspective. From mine, I know it because it ends with iota. That little revelation cleared up a lot of misunderstanding I had when listening to him on CD. (iPod, actually.)

###Homework

– Read chapter 31
– Chap 31 workbook: parse all, translate 1-5

###Preview

– Understand differences between indicative and subjunctive
– Note (but not necessarily memorize) subjunctive paradigms
– “Uses” on pages 293-295
– Section 31.19

###Book Recommendations

– (coming soon)

###Other notes

– “Mood” = How the action of a verbal form relates to reality
– Need to tweak Pete’s Participle Chart, I think to have three starting points to avoid mistaking participles for verbs as quickly as possible
– **Eight Parsing “Slots”** covering all verbal forms: Augment | Reduplication | Tense Formative | Connecting Vowel | Participle Morpheme | Personal Ending | Case Ending

And farewell to Nicole! I hope we’ll see you back in the fall! If we have Greek 2. Time to start petitioning the MacLaurin men. :)

The audio recording I made as a test tonight didn’t work very well… too far away. But I’ll have a nice recording of next week’s class available for you to download so you can keep up. :)