This is a fantastic video! As a language learner I am more of an inductive learner, so reading the language in a live context is not only fun but also helps me learn so much better. I did not realize that there was so many excellent resources! Thanks for such a great guide to the other resources!
I hope you guys read the Septuagint. You might have trouble if you don’t know a lot about Egyptian Arabic. If you have a Greek expert around who’d want to check through some verses with me, I’d love that. I want to look at the Job section on Leviathans, Psalm 23, Monument Inscription Psalms, The end of Isaiah, and John passages involving Oude.
A video on non-Christian writings would be interesting. I am just starting to learn Greek and am primarily learning it to read Christian literature, but I have also wondered what else I can do with the language. I've heard, for instance, I will be able to use it to read Epictetus's Discourses. That sounds worthwhile. But what else is there? There's a video topic for you.
I got the reader's LXXlast year and have found it very helpful. I also use Rod Whitacre's reader with some of my students. Lovely resource. He also has an English translation tucked away in the back of the book where it is helpful without distracting the reader.
Where can I buy an "unedited" or "regular" Byzantine type set Greel New Testament that isn't a "critical edition" but more of just like a personal devotional reader?
Thank you for sharing this video. I have a question on reading texts in Koine Greek. Is reading Meditations of Marcus Aurelius more difficult than doing the New Testament? Or would learning the Biblical Greek (or the New Testament) help understand the other one?
I don’t know for sure (it hadn’t occurred to me to read it until now) but I expect Aurelius would be more difficult for two reasons, a) he is regarded as a scholar, so his Greek was probably on the more difficult end and b) it is an unfamiliar text which inherently takes a little more effort.
