In the texts below, I marked the couple of things I noticed with bold and a letter. My thoughts on those are:
{a} Considering αυτος εστιν, I tend to like the NASB because the “he” is already built in to the verb, and we usually recognize the addition of a personal pronoun as being intensifying. However, based on what I understand about this week’s chapter so for, it isn’t specifically an “adjectival intensive” because there’s no article, so maybe the RSV weights that fact heavily.
Another fun class. Lots of translation time. Had a couple of examples of places where you can see emphases in the Greek text which would be very difficult to be keyed in to using only the English texts, such as the verb tenses/moods concerning “sin” (we went through 1 John 1:7-2:2).
We had an interesting optional homework piece which I will probably blog on later.
Book Recommendations:
– R. Guelich, Mark (1-8:26), WBC
– W. Lane, Mark (8:27-16:20), WBC
– R. T. France, The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary of the Greek New Testament, Int’l Greek Testament Commentaries
– M. Hooker, The Gospel According to Saint Mark, Black’s New Testament Commentary
Preview:
– Three uses of αυτος
– 2-1-2
Homework:
– Read Chapter 12
– Wkbk: Parse odds
– Wkbk: Translate 1-5
I was wearing cotton and walking on a wool rug. And here in Minnesota, the humidity is quite low in the winter. All of which meant I kept zapping my computer every time I sat down to work on it. If I tried to ground myself against the nearby outlet (which was inconvenient), I had a static discharge over half an inch long.
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][1]Well, I wasn’t going to continue to zap my computer all day, so I made myself [this quick little static discharge cable][1] out of an old cord and a paperclip. Don’t do this yourself. You’ll kill yourself. No… I won’t tell you how. Just don’t.
That said, it worked great. :)
[1]: http://www.kpmartin.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/02/static-discharger.jpg
[1]: http://php.kpmartin.com/helenmartin/?p=15
[2]: http://66.246.178.239:8500/listen.pls
This whole [non-diet diet thing][1] is working. At least I think it’s the diet, and not the month long bout with every virus to pull into town, swagger up to the bar and ask me if he can buy me a drink. Actually, I haven’t been that sick. Just a lingering, low-level kind of discomfort punctuated by the occasional, crushing need for an impromptu nap.
I was surprised by a nice snowfall today. Cheerful, bright and quiet. It made having a frustratingly unproductive day in front of the computer a little nicer. We listened to WNAR-AM [[iTunes link][2]] today. *Suspense!* and *CBS Radio Mystery Theater*. Which I remember listening to in my dad’s black AMC Gremlin when I was a kid. The intro music has stuck in my head perfectly since then. It’s fun to be able to hear it again.
[1]: http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=166
[2]: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013028.php
[3]: http://www.maclaurin.org/
[4]: http://www.prspktv.org/
In [this article][1] discussing *To Kill a Mockingbird* via [PowerLine][2], I found this paragraph interesting:
> There is a gauzy and middlebrow sentimentality in the book [To Kill a Mockingbird], and a naïveté about human nature, luxuries we perhaps feel we can no longer afford. We are all too aware of how the righteous hatred of hatred can degenerate into an even more poisonous and manipulable form of hate, precisely because it is insulated from self-examination by its own sense of righteousness.
The comment on self-examination is what struck me. Self-examination in the light of Scripture is something I’m familiar with, but the concept of self-examination solidified in a different way when I heard it discussed from a different perspective at a local conference some time ago.
Both the Minneapolis Martins and the South Carolina Martins will appreciate [this][1]. :)
[1]: http://www.instructables.com/ex/i/EF149E48E61510289254001143E7E506/?ALLSTEPS
My lovely bride has a fantastic series of posts concerning a short, traumatic event which happened recently. [Don’t miss it.][1] :)
[1]: http://php.kpmartin.com/helenmartin/?p=18
Kenny and I got to go see Disney’s rendition of C. S. Lewis’ *The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe* in *Chronicles of Narnia*. He didn’t want to at first. He’s read all the books, some more than once. But he knew from the commercials that some of the scarier characters looked, well, scary! I kept good-naturedly needling him to go until finally he asked “Papa, why should I go and have those images in my head?”
Oh… uh… good point. Great. Now I’ve got a kid who it turns out has actually listened to me and values the sovereignty of *his* imagination over that of the director.
Reading was fun tonight. It was nice to have my brain start to see things, albeit with help. I can start to see what I don’t know. Maybe that sounds weird. What I mean is I am starting to recognize enough to say “I know what that is *supposed* to be, but I don’t know that form yet.” I really need to get a better handle on vocab, though. It’s not much good figuring out how a word is to work in a sentence, but not knowing what it means.
Notes from tonight: I must nail the full paradigm of definite articles. And I need to remember the definite articles on the vocab cards, since I can’t just *figure out* the gender of third declension words.
Assignments:
– Read Chapter 11
– Chapter 11 Vocab
– Workbook: Pg 33 parse odds
– Workbook: Pg 34 translate 1-5
– Memorize 1st and 2nd person personal pronoun paradigms
– Memorize πας paradigm
Preview (what we need to understand) from this chapter:
– Memorization noted above
– The difference between accented and unaccented pronouns
– How the case of a pronoun is determined
– How the person of a pronoun is determined
– How the gender of a pronoun is determined
– Distinctives of dentals in the 3rd declension
Book Recommendations:
– D. Hagner, Matthew, two volumes by Word
– W. D. Davies & D. Allison A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to Matthew, three volumes by ICC
– R. Gundry, Matthew: A Commentary on his Handbook for a Mixed Church Under Persecution
– R. Guelich, Sermon on the Mount: A foundation for Understanding
…eating any kind of food and shunning exercise. [Helen’s blogging on how][1].
No, I haven’t lost an arm or something.
[1]: http://www.helenmartin.com/