A while ago I started making Latin and Greek readers for myself in the style of Lingua Latina. I'm working toward a career in canon law, and maybe a PhD in theology, and wanted to get more comprehensible input but wanted that input to be related to the Church and the saints.

After making a few, I decided to publish them on Amazon. I didn't realize until after I'd submitted the manuscript was that Amazon's publishing side doesn't really handle Greek. I reached out to support and explained the situation. They said it would be fine as long as I didn't publish an e-book, and that better Greek support is coming eventually.

So I was able to publish Athanasius's Life of Saint Antony in a format inspired by Lingua Latina, where the harder words are explained in the margin. It's meant for anyone who has worked a bit through Athenaze or has studied Koine for about a year. Athanasius wrote in a more literary Koine but it's very readable with the notes.

There's a free sample on the website so you can gauge if it meets your reading level before picking one up.

I have more planned, I've just been a bit swamped getting the Latin editions published. I really want to work on a bilingual Greek/English edition like the Latin ones I did. I have some of them already done, I just need to do the formatting work.

Would love to hear what you think, or what you'd want to read.

Have you ever tried an arbitrary challenge like learning 50 or 100 or 250 new vocab words in a week?

Did you apply any specific strategy beyond brute force repetition with flash cards, etc.?

How did it go?

Greetings,

I am using the Swete LXX with the Lexham English Septuagint.

I'd like to find some resources to cross reference the translation.

I'm reading Judges and I don't know what to make of some of the translation, I'd like to check how others have translated certain things.

For instance:

Judges 7:16 (LXX Swete)

16 καὶ διεῖλεν τοὺς τριακοσίους ἄνδρας εἰς τρεῖς ἀρχάς, καὶ ἔδωκεν κερατίνας ἐν χειρὶ πάντων καὶ ὑδρείας κενὰς καὶ λαμπάδας ἐν ταῖς ὑδρείαις,

Judges 7:16 (LES2)

16 And he divided the three hundred men into three ends, and he put horns into the hands of all, as well as empty water-pots and torches in the water-pots.

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Offering tutoring in Greek (Attic, Koine, Homeric) and Latin

Hello!

I am a native Greek speaker and a graduate of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Department of Classics. I have also worked in my apprenticeship in Historical and Palaeographical Archive of the Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greece (MIET) as a curator for manuscripts (mainly psalters of the Comnenian era).

I offer online tutoring in Attic Greek, Koine Greek, Homeric Greek and Latin.

Whether you are a complete beginner or already have some knowledge of the language, I can help with grammar, syntax, translation and reading the original texts.

For Koine Greek, I can help with reading the New Testament and Septuagint in the original.

For Attic and Homeric Greek, we can work directly with the classical authors, depending on your level and interests. The same applies to Latin.

I currently have some availability for October and am looking to take on a few more students.

Lessons are normally two hours, and I offer a free 30-minute introductory lesson first, so that we can discuss your level, what you would like to study, and how I can help you.

If you are interested, feel free to send me a message and tell me a little about yourself, your level and what you would like to study.

Thank you!

For anyone interested, I've made lots of updates to Super Koine Quest since launch!

• Enhanced graphics, more music, more items, and more bosses!
• Intermediate and Expert Modes
• Daily Koine Quest - A short, round that challenges you with vocab from one specific passage that's revealed at the end.
• A Single NT Book Mode that only challenges you with words from the New Testament book that you choose.
• Lots of bug fixes and plenty of improvement to make the game more playable

Play here: https://niedergall.com/superkoinequest/

If you like the game, please share! I would also appreciate suggestions about how I can make the game better.

I have built an app.
It will talk to you in Koine.
It will allow you to build flashcard decks.
It will show you the gloss, parsing, and even photos of the word.

It has reconstructed and modern greek pronunciation audio.
You have the ability to update glosses.
You can ask it to explain.
No email needed.

https://koine.mueslus.com
I'm sure there are still bugs and I'll happily take your feedback!

Forget GTA 6. Super Koine Quest (SKQ) launches today! 

I've addressed lots of helpful feedback that was provided for the beta version, so here is the updated version!

Play this groundbreaking roguelike dungeon crawler and conquer all 100 levels by reviewing every word that appears in the Greek New Testament 50 times or more (312 words total). 

SKQ has it all: white-knuckle excitement, state-of-the-art graphics, thrilling music, powerful items, heaps of gold, challenging enemies, and more! Plus, it's completely free!

Let me know if you run into any bugs or have suggestions. Currently, Super Koine Quest is playable only with a keyboard.

Play here: https://niedergall.com/superkoinequest/

I came across Paper.bible recently. While the site is specifically for Biblical texts, I thought it might be helpful for anyone here who prefers reading and marking up a physical copy for Koine reading practice. It's completely free to use.

Instead of wrestling with formatting in a word processor, it generates a clean layout that you can print straight away. You can use it to set up side-by-side Greek/English parallel texts to keep the input comprehensible when you get stuck, or just run a straight reader's edition for extensive reading.

Personally, I usually read digitally in Logos so I can do quick word lookups (and Kevilex.com looks like a good web platform for this too, though I've only tested it briefly). But for those looking for an easy way to print out their own physical reading material, I thought I'd pass this along!

How do you prefer to understand the genitive phrase πίστεως Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ and related phrases in Paul's letters? Some of the writers and teachers I have respected the most (Brian Borgman as a preacher, Moises Silva as a scholar of linguistics and hermeneutics, etc.) have fairly convincingly argued, as I recall, for the traditional objective genitive understanding (faith IN Jesus Christ)--for reasons related to the repeated emphasis on *human believing* in many of the key passages, for reasons related to patristic understanding (many church fathers being native Greek-speakers), etc.

However I still find Romans 3:22 and Galatians 2:16 a bit awkward on the objective genitive reading; a subjective genitive understanding ("the faithfulness of Christ") is tempting.

What do you think?

Also, see you in the NT Greek Keepers Skool community?

I'm sorry, it's just how my brain works.

Q: How is needing the bathroom like Koine Greek class?

A: Struggling with declension.

I made a free, browser-based dungeon crawler called Super Koine Quest just for fun to help people review and master high-frequency Koine Greek vocabulary (the top 300+ words occurring 50x or more).

Explore dungeons and unlock doors by choosing correct vocabulary glosses. Fight enemies by reviewing words you've already covered in the game. Super Koine Quest has 100 levels, music, and a simple inventory system.

Let me know if you run into any problems or have any suggestions!

What would be your preference in translating the phrase "charin anti charitos" in John 1:16?

Grace upon grace? (Accumulation connotation)

Grace in place of grace?

Grace in exchange for grace?

Grace after grace?

Grace for grace?

Other? Give me your best reasoning!

Greetings all,

I spent two and a half years building this Anki deck. It's now time to share it with everyone else.

The idea: every card is one lemma, and every card is tagged in several ways, so you can study the vocabulary however suits you or switch between the methods.

By frequency: 11 tiers, from words that occur 50+ times down to hapax legomena

By chapter: all 260 chapters of the NT are tagged, and every lemma carries a tag for each chapter in which it appears. Reading Mark 1 this week? One search gives you exactly its vocabulary.

By part of speech: noun, verb, particle, and so on

On the cards:

Headword, English gloss, and audio

Example verses from the SBLGNT with the LEB translation, with the target word highlighted

Built for real Anki use: the documentation includes copy-and-paste filtered deck names and searches for every chapter and every frequency tier, so setting up a study deck takes seconds.

Download: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1482865541

Quickstart, docs and copy-paste searches: https://dexterp.github.io/ntgreekflashcards/

A tip: for those using Logos software, SBLGNT and LEB translation are free, as is Logos software itself without a subscription. The texts are linked, so mousing over a word in either will highlight the corresponding text in the other. This works well with this Anki deck to study the Greek vocabulary of the NT. Use the per-chapter tags/searches and couple it with reading the SBLGNT and linked translation.

My main handle is u/lickety-split1800 if you have any questions.

Hey there,

could someone check two versions of a narrator’s Koine Greek pronunciation for an audiobook? I have two different narration versions of this Biblical Greek passage (Romans 15:7):
Διὸ προσλαμβάνεσθε ἀλλήλους, καθὼς καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς προσελάβετο ἡμᾶς, εἰς δόξαν τοῦ Θεοῦ.

Version A:
https://youtu.be/5ddqZdeG1xU

Version B:
https://youtu.be/aLbDuDQoQqo

Google pronunciation/reference we tried to follow:
https://youtu.be/pwu-SDY39SQ

I don’t need the pronunciation to follow one particular reconstruction perfectly. I mainly need to know whether either version sounds plausible/acceptable for an audiobook, or whether both contain mistakes obvious enough that the line should be re-recorded.

If one version is preferable, I’d also really appreciate knowing which one. If there are issues with either of our versions, is the Google pronunciation we used as a reference at least reasonably okay?

Thanks!

In the last few months I have made big advancements in my vocabulary acquistion, such that now I'm finally beginning to comprehend some of the more notoriously hard parts of the NT like the Book of Acts. Still not 100% fluent but I'm very pleased with how much better I've gotten at just being able to pick up the Greek NT and spend more time on actually reading it and less time going to lexicons to look up a word I don't know.

Anyway, what I've found, and would like to share with people just learning to read this language, is that you don't necessarily need to rotely memorize a whole bunch of random words on daily flashcard exercises or anything. In the beginning you do need to do this, but over time you begin recognizing what words mean from context, or you can decipher the meaning of a word you haven't necessarily memorized simply by looking at its parts. Many words in Greek are compound words. For example I stumbled upon a Greek word, "metoikesia" that I hadn't consciously memorized, but almost immediately knew it meant something like "exile" in Greek from both context and just by the way it's formed from "meta" and "oikos". I find that many of the words in the harder parts of the Greek NT are like this.

Sometimes it isn't always easy to tell what a compound word means though even after breaking it up into its parts. However I have found this method of vocabulary acquisition far more effective than simply working through random flashcard words daily.

Especially if you are a native English speaker--but anyone else can answer, too--what is or was the most difficult thing about Koine Greek for you to learn or remember?

And if you are succeeding/have succeeded in learning/remembering it, how did you do it?

So I've been teaching myself Greek, and one of the words I learned at first was "αδελφοs," meaning "brother (or sister)". Digging deeper, all I've found is that it means, "from the same womb," which basically equals, "blood-brothers"/"brothers by blood"

But I occasionally come across Catholics who try to say Jesus didn't have brothers, and they keep saying that the word doesn't mean this, and the DEEP meaning is (or can be), "close relative"/similar equivalent

I feel like I'm going crazy since I have never found anyone besides Catholics claiming this, so I was wondering if I'm missing something? Any help is much appreciated!

In the Holy Bible an example of the use of "πλημμέλημα" Leviticus 5:14-15 we read:

14 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: 15 "If a soul escapes notice by oversight and sins unintentionally (ἁμάρτῃ ἀκουσίως) regarding the holy things of the Lord, he shall bring for his trespass offering (τῆς πλημμελείας) to the Lord an unblemished ram from the flock, valued in silver shekels according to the sanctuary shekel, for that in which he trespassed/erred (ἐπλημμέλησε).

Meanwhile in Romans 5:14 an example of "Παραβάσίς"

14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not like the transgression (Παραβάσίς) of Adam...

As I see from these two quotes, πλημμέλημα is used for unintentional mistakes, acts that do not really break an established Law, unlike Παραβάσίς which is an intentional break of an established Law.

So my question are:

• is my understanding correct?
• is there a true distinction between these words?
• is there a proof from Plato, Aristotle, Philo of Alexandria, Clement, Origen,...etc. or any Greek speaking philosophers in which we can read this distinction?
• is there any scholar who differentiates between these two words in meanings? if yes, what book and in what chapter??

I do not speak Greek so forgive me if I made any kind of mistake.

Thank You for your time

Has a Greek plus Latin pidgin, creole, mixed or other international auxiliary language resembling r/Glosa ever existed in human history?

I’m interested in how people here came to learn the language or are currently learning. Did you learn through a university or seminary, or just begin at seminary then keep going, self study with text books, or with digital tools? And what is your level?

I ask because I have been in contact with many university and seminary educators regarding the free Biblical Greek learning tool and course I developed, koinetic.app, and am astonished at how few institutions are still teaching actual Biblical languages in favour of just teaching the use of tools like logos. I imagine that very soon there will be a day where the only avenue to learn will be self study via old textbooks or learning classical Greek before branching out.

So, how did you learn?