Ken Martin’s Blog

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This whole non-diet diet thing 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 [...]

In this article discussing To Kill a Mockingbird via PowerLine, 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 [...]

Both the Minneapolis Martins and the South Carolina Martins will appreciate this. :)

My lovely bride has a fantastic series of posts concerning a short, traumatic event which happened recently. Don’t miss it. :)

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 [...]

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 [...]

…eating any kind of food and shunning exercise. Helen’s blogging on how. No, I haven’t lost an arm or something.