Ken Martin’s Blog

The gospel of Mark has an interesting little structure. A whole bunch of the verses start with και, which is often translated “and” but can be, and often is, left untranslated since it’s just there to keep the story going from point to point. So, it’s something like “…and then they did this, and then [...]

The traffic was just burying my server. Heh heh. No, I just realized that the podcasting plugin I was using was tagging everything on the site as though it was a podcast. But really, I didn’t even really record Intermediate Greek since it just wasn’t a lecture-style class. Most of what would have been recorded would [...]

I got myself another Koine Greek grammar book. This one was on the church discount new-but-scratch-and-dent cart, so I at least got a good deal on it. It’s been fun finding so many additional Koine Greek resources lately (like the free iTunesU classes I noted earlier), but it can be a little confusing. Each of these [...]

Apple’s iTunes Store announced today the availability of iTunes U: free college classes from places like MIT and Stanford. Audio and video. And among the offerings are Greek classes from Concordia Seminary. I’ve downloaded a few. They seems really good. So far, it’s stuff Pete’s already taught me, but nevertheless, I’m sure I’ll be downloading and [...]

Inspired by the very cool work at memorizable.com, I’ve started to put together a vocabulary tool using their freely available, incredibly portable code. It’s just started, and I’m trying to find a source for the vocabulary words in order of frequency of occurrence, but at least you can give it a little run and see [...]

I asked a question on the wonderful Mac site Macintouch about multiple keyboards and multiple input languages. Basically, I want to be able to easily switch between typing Greek and English. There were some excellent responses, one in particular which had a link which led me to a little Googling, and man, are there some [...]

And here’s tonight’s class. Finishing up on genitives and getting ready for datives. More diagramming, too.

I don’t know how it happened, but the audio for class 6 just appeared. And so here it is! It was a good class with a nice overview syntactical categories of genitives, and an intro to the diagramming we’ll be using for sentences.

First the bad news: The iPod didn’t record this time. I don’t know why. It said it was, but it never counted up. I’ll have to babysit it next time. Too bad, too. It was a really interesting class on genitives. Now the good news: Bethlehem Baptist said yes to us using a room! Starting this [...]

There’s only one unpleasant thing about my Greek class: the parking. There’s a dreadful lack of parking. And surly, uninformed lot attendants stand guard on the only nearby lot, where we are supposed to have sufficient spaces. Grrr. Time to give Bethlehem Baptist a call and see if they can allow us in again. We went [...]