Another good class. Concepts are settling down well in my head, I think, but vocab is getting me. I could tell that I didn’t have me vocab cards with me as much last week. We read more of 1 John 2. A little tougher going for all of us. I well understand the idea that word order can be wacky in Greek, but I think I saw the biggest example of this so far this week.
We have another bit “translation cage match” homework which I might blog on later.
“I’m not going to get married when I grow up.”
“Why not?”
“Because then I’d have a whole bunch of kids and they’d drive me nuts.”
[1]: http://zipzapzop.com/2006/02/06/cat-jet/
Argh. I’ve gotta talk to my PR department. I’m not getting my props. I had a [cat box exhaust fan][1] running *long* ago. Oh well… cool to see I’m not the only goofball with the idea.
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