#Biblical Greek vocabulary

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Greek vocabulary of common farm animals (livestock)

For no reason whatsoever. Let’s go!

Cow - η αγελάδα - i ayeláða

Bull - ο ταύρος - o távros (yep it’s Taurus)

Ox - το βόδι - to vóði

Calf - το μοσχάρι - to moshári (mos-HA-ree)

Cattle (in general, plural) - τα Βοοειδή - ta vooiðí (vo-o-ee-THEE)

Sheep - το πρόβατο - to próvato

Lamb - το αρνί - to arní

Lamb - ο αμνός - o amnós (scientific and biblical)

Lamb / Young sheep - το ζυγούρι - to ziɣúri

Ewe - η προβατίνα - i provatína

Ram - ο κριός / το κριάρι - o kriós / to kriári

Goat - το κατσίκι / το γίδι - to katsíki / to yíði

Doe - η κατσίκα / η γίδα - i katsíka / i yíða

Doe (archaic) - η αίγα - i éɣa

Buck - ο τράγος - o tráɣos

Kid - το ερίφιο / το κατσικάκι - to erífio / to katsikáki

Pig - το γουρούνι - to ɣurúni

Pig - ο χοίρος - o híros

Gilt / Sow - η γουρούνα / η σκρόφα - i ɣurúna / i skrófa (! Both can also be used as swear words !)

Boar - ο κάπρος - o kápros

Piglet - το γουρουνάκι - to ɣurunáki

For birds, check this post.

Notes:

ð is the voiced dental fricative (th in mother)

ɣ is the voiced velar fricative (kinda like French and Germans saying rrrrr)

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i’m just starting Language Classification: History and Method by Cambell & Poser, and as part of their historical survey of the origins of the comparative method, they’re talking about the early modern etymologists--it’s very interesting how much evidence was recognized for Indo-European and similar language families as early as the 16th and 17th centuries, but what methodological hurdles held back actual progress on reconstruction. for instance, Dutch School philologists recognized that core vocabulary and sound correspondences were both better points of comparison than arbitrary shared vocabulary, or rarer words more likely to be borrowings--but having noted the existence of a sound correspondence like Greek glossa vs glotta, or Flemish water vs German wasser, the s/t correspondence was held to be valid for any two words in any two languages. So wild etymological speculation such as the perennially popular how-can-we-derive-this-from-Hebrew acrobatics was restrained (cf. Edo Nyland’s attempts to derive everything from Basque for a modern equivalent), but they still didn’t have a concept of localized sound laws that proceeded in a regular, temporally limited way. And, of course, they were still more often than not trying to fit everything in to a Biblical framework, like linking the classification of languages with the genealogy of the sons of Noah.

The only reason historical linguistics didn’t flourish earlier IMO is that it is hard to get data--the fact that it was the Age of Discovery helped a lot, not for any particular technological or scientific innovation, but just because more languages were being encountered, including languages that were already being written down. If you were trying to study languages during, say, the early Roman Empire, not only would it be very difficult to get information on distant languages, but very little of it would be in books--you would mostly have to be tracking down speakers of those languages, and interrogating them through translators.

Claudius Salmasius is probably the one to get closest to the later neogrammarian principle of regular sound laws first--he recognizes something like Grimm’s Law in the 1640s. But he still doesn’t have great sources from Sanskrit (if I understand correctly, he’s mostly getting his information  secondhand via Ctesias, and comparing that to modern Persian), and trying to fit his data into the Scythian hypothesis, which is a sort of proto-Kurgan Hypothesis that has confused the classical Scythians, their later mythologized version, Persia, and the (not yet so named) Indo-Europeans. (You might have been able to reconstruct PIE in the 17th century, if you had been really ahead of the curve, but modern archeology also definitely helped clarify our understanding of ancient cultures in a way that had a big impact on the study of historical linguistics.)

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Language learning January update:

Current priorities -

1) Mandarin (basic fluency, HSK 5)

2) ASL (work through Lingvano app)

3) Toki Pona (learn all 137 words)

4) Hebrew / Arabic (relearn/learn alphabet)

5) Gaelic (start learning again, if I have time)

6) French (work through Duolingo I guess)

Mandarin -

Previous info: Been slowly learning for the last few years (uhh I think it's been like 5 years or so). I know probably around 3000 characters, but I still feel like I don't even have basic fluency somehow.

Goal: Basic fluency by the end of the year, confidence with all HSK 4 and HSK 5 words and grammar structures. Even though my current reading level is closer to the 拼音 books I have, I want to slowly work through the novel I have.

Progress: Trying to read a few pages of a 拼音 book every day, and so far with the novel I'm about 5 sentences in, with 20 new words added to my vocabulary list.

ASL (sign language) -

Previous info: started learning around October last year, working through the Lingvano app. Had a pretty good streak going for awhile but broke the streak and lost motivation sometime in December. Trying to get back into it. I probably know around 300 signs.

Goal: Work through the Lingvano app by the end of the year.

Toki Pona -

Previous info: I know 10 words...

Goals: Learn all the 137 words by the end of the year.

Greek, Gaelic, Latin, French -

Previous info: Greek - tried learning a few years ago, maybe learned about 30 words. Gaelic - started learning 2 years ago, maybe had about 50 words or so. Latin - didn't get far at all, maybe a few words. French - learned it in school up till grade 12, but I've forgotten so much; don't really have the motivation to get back into it, but I really should.

Goals: I guess these are all on hold for now, unless I get my life more organized. Greek probably won't become a priority again for awhile, Latin certainly won't be a priority for a long while unfortunately, but I hope I can get into Gaelic again later in the year if I find some time. French is definitely something I should get back into, ASAP, but the motivation is just not there for it.

Hebrew -

Previous info: I'm a scholar and a weirdo so I wanna work through the original version of the bible and all its biblical hebrew. Learning the language seems "easier" than struggling with just looking the whole thing up word by word. I didn’t get very far, I guess I sort of know the alphabet and probably around 5 words.

Goal: uhhh idk, do better.

Arabic (Egyptian dialect) -

Previous info: just started learning, still trying to work on recognizing the alphabet.

Goal: I want to be able to learn the alphabet and pronunciation by the end of the year. Duolingo can't really help so it's gonna be an uphill battle for this.

Misc -

I guess my other priorities down the line would be Sanskrit and Italian. Sanskrit cause why not, and Italian cause I want to read through the original Dante's Inferno

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Online Christian Resources

Blue Letter Bible

Blue Letter Bible is a FREE resource available with lots of information to further study God's word. Such as tools to look Hebrew and Greek vocabulary indepth within the context of the original language.

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COMMENTARY:

Dr, McDonald does understand that the Prodigal Son is a re-casting of The Odyssey, doesn't he? The whole of the divine intent of the Biblical narrative from the Book of Job to Revelation can be summed up by the response of the Father to the sight from afar of the Prodigal Son, trudging home like a beggar. The whole Bible can be understood as Elohim the verb saying "Hi!:

When first we meet Odysseus, he is weeping, His men have been turned into swine and he is being prevented from returing to Faithful Penelope by the gods, who finally relect of their curse on him for his insolence of pride and is allowed to return to Ithaca, where his dog, Argos, who dies from joy, like a video of a soldier being greeted by his/her dog on returning from deployment,

The point Jesus is making with His Parable is that God the Father in the parable is like Argos, except he doesn't fall down dead,, but orders his household to prepare a celebration for the return of his lost child, In contrast, the elder son is resentful of his brother's resumption in the household in the same way the False Suitors must be killed in The Odyssey,

we are all lost children returning home in the sight of The One, If Paul had employed the Parable of the Prodigal Son on Mars Hill instead of his lame rabbinical legalism of the "unkown god", his presentation would have been far more successful.

All the Gospels are profoundly Hellenistic, Jesus, himself, is selling the Hellenistic Judaism of Philo of Alexandria, as presented in the overture to the Gospel of John, Jesus perfects the Shem by including Plato in the construct and includes the "love they neighbor" clause as the abicing ethic of the atheist in the Free Will paradigm of The Kingdom of Heaven. (of the Newtonian universe, in contrast to the Kingdom of God of The One as described in Revelation 4:2)

I mean, in essence, The Gospels do, indeed, rip off the Homeric epic, After all, Jesus, Paul and Matthew are generally working from the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Hebrew scripture, which expanded the linguistic register of the 8000 word vocabulary of the Hebrew Torah with the linguistic registry of the 250, - 350,000 Greek vocabulary,

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25 Inspiring Bible Verses About Prayer

I used to think that praying was a weakness of mine and that I was really bad at it. Whether I was alone or in a group, when it was time to pray, I often felt like I just couldn’t come up with the right words (if any!). In my faith tradition, I saw a lot of people speak beautifully and spontaneously—and that was hard for me. Over time, I’ve grown in confidence. There isn’t just one way to pray. As I’ve studied many Bible verses about prayer, I’ve been encouraged to learn that there are endless ways to pray and connect with God! Whether you speak aloud from the heart, recite a common prayer, or contemplate in silence while the Holy Spirit moves, they all have their place. Related Reading: Tired of Boring, Routine Prayers? Here are 10 New Ways to Pray!

What Does the Bible Say About Prayer?

The Bible presents prayer as the way people communicate directly with God, their Creator. It includes many examples and encourages believers to approach the Lord with faith, humility, and perseverance while seeking His guidance, wisdom, comfort, and strength. Many Bible verses about prayer demonstrate practical and powerful ways the people of the Bible could pray—and we can, too.

Examining Verses About Prayer in Hebrew and Greek

When we read Bible verses about prayer in modern English, they are translated from the ancient languages the Bible was originally written in, Hebrew and Greek. These words are rich with meaning—in fact, multiple words in the Biblical text are translated to “prayer” in English. If you want to take a deeper dive, take a look at a free resource like Blue Letter Bible, where you can see how words are translated and what they mean. It’s also helpful to examine commentary from experts in those languages to understand the full meaning of verses about prayer. For example, according to AlephBeta, Tefillah (Heb. תפילה; te-feel-ah) is the Hebrew word for prayer. The word itself contains a range of meanings. The Hebrew root פלל connotes “executing judgment” (Exodus 21:22) or “thinking” (Genesis 48:11). In this sense, the word להתפלל, to pray, may also refer to a process of accounting or contemplation. While tefillah is the most common, generic word for prayer, the Bible uses many other terms as well. For example, the word עתירה (atirah), related to “digging” (Genesis 25:21); תחינה (techina), which means “supplication” or “begging” (Deuteronomy 3:23); and שיח (siach), which connotes “conversation” (Genesis 24:64, Pslams 102:1). The Bible has a rich vocabulary of prayer that represents a broad range of different approaches and types of prayers, each with its own unique quality and flavor (emphasis added). In Greek, the language of the New Testament, the word most commonly translated to “prayer” is proseuche. This article on prayer from Renner Ministries explains the significance of that word to the original audience. As you can see, there is much to learn about prayer in the Bible! The verses about prayer listed below are just the beginning (but they’re a great place to start). Related Reading: How to Study the Bible for Beginners

25 Meaningful Bible Verses About Prayer

There are so many Bible verses about prayer that the best way to consider all of them would just be to read the whole Word of God! However, if you’d like to reference a few, this selection from both the Old and New Testaments covers many of the elements of why and how to pray.  All of these Bible verses about prayer are found in the NIV (New International Version), but you could also read them in the King James Version (KJV) or English Standard Version (ESV). 1. Exodus 33:11 The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend… I love how one of the earliest verses about prayer paints a picture of two friends talking to each other. That is a beautiful way to approach praying to God. 2. 1 Samuel 1:27 I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him. This verse is part of one of the longer Scriptures about prayer: the story of Hannah, the prophet Samuel’s mother. She was in great anguish about her infertility and poured out her heart to God in lament and begged for a child. He granted her request. This is one of the first examples of a prayer of supplication: humbly asking God to provide something. 3. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. These Scriptures on prayer present a message from God to His people who have rebelled. He reminds them that no matter what they have done if they seek Him in humble repentance, He will offer forgiveness and healing. 4. Psalms 13:1–2 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? These verses about prayer take the form of lament. There are many prayer Scriptures like this in the Bible. We can take our pain and our questions to God in prayer, even when it seems like He doesn’t see us. 5. Psalm 27:7–8 Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me. My heart says of you, ‘Seek his face!’ Your face, Lord, I will seek. The Psalmist here demonstrates boldness; these Bible verses about prayer show how we can approach God in a way that asks for His attention. 6. Psalm 34:17 The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles. In one of many verses about prayer in the Psalms, this prayer Scripture reminds us that God hears us when we pray and cry out to Him. He will answer. 7. Psalm 55:17 Evening, morning, and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. Once again, God hears. Note that the writer in this Scripture on prayer calls out to God repeatedly. 8. Psalm 59:16 But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble. Not all verses about prayer are requests for help. In this Psalm, the writer offers a song of praise for God’s great power and love, which is instructive for our prayers. 9. Psalm 145:18 The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. This Scripture on prayer reminds us that not only does God answer prayer, but He is near to those who call on Him. You can remember this when it seems like He is far away. 10. Jeremiah 29:11–12 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.” These famous verses about prayer paint the picture of the relationship between God and His people who are in exile. This is part of a longer letter in which He tells them to be patient while they wait 70 long years for their deliverance. Even though it seems like He is slow to answer, He offers hope and a future for them and will listen to their prayers.  11. Matthew 6:5–8 And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Jesus has several verses about prayer in the Sermon on the Mount. His point here is that prayer full of empty phrases done for show is its reward. Meaningful prayer has nothing to do with performance and is all about your relationship with God, like a parent and child. 12. Matthew 6:9–13 (also Luke 11:2–4) This, then, is how you should pray: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one.” In these verses about prayer, known as the Lord’s prayer, Jesus continues teaching by providing a framework for talking to God. It is simple yet profound, summarizing who God is and how we may humbly approach Him. 13. Matthew 7:7–8 (also Luke 11:9–10) Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Towards the end of the Sermon on the Mount, there are more verses about prayer in which Jesus encourages His followers to be bold in their prayers. A loving God wants to provide good gifts to His children. 14. Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.” In more verses about prayer later in Matthew, Jesus provides an example before He goes to the cross. He is in great distress and is honest about it, but He is still ultimately surrendered to the will of God. 15. Mark 11:24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. This Scripture on prayer challenges us not just to ask God for our desires, but to believe that we will receive them. 16. John 16:21–24 “A woman giving birth to a child has pain because her time has come; but when her baby is born she forgets the anguish because of her joy that a child is born into the world. So with you: Now is your time of grief, but I will see you again and you will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy. In that day you will no longer ask me anything. Very truly I tell you, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.” These verses on prayer are a little more cryptic, but Jesus is trying to provide His disciples with hope during a time of sorrow, which is temporary. He reminds them that God will give them what they ask for. And because of who He is, they can pray in His name—with His authority. 17. Romans 8:26 “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” Sometimes, we don’t know what to say when we talk to God, and that’s okay. There are many times I’ve sat in wordless contemplation. This Scripture on prayer says that the Spirit prays for us in mysterious groanings, which is a great comfort if you’ve ever been overwhelmed, numb, or wordless for any reason. 18. Ephesians 6:18 And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people. Paul instructs believers in this Scripture on prayer to talk to God on all kinds of occasions. Nothing is trivial or off the table—, if we’re alert, we can be in prayer pretty constantly. 19. Philippians 4:6–7 Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. These are some of my favorite Bible verses about prayer because they address the heart. In every situation, we can ask God for help, find gratitude, and seek the powerful peace of God through Christ. 20. 1 Thessalonians 5:16–18 Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. The Apostle Paul seems to be hitting on a theme in his verses about prayer! We are to pray without ceasing, with gratitude. 21. Hebrews 4:15–16 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. These Bible verses about prayer remind us that we are not talking to some distant power. Jesus, our “high priest,” became fully human and understands everything we go through. We can thus be confident going to God, who listens, understands, and helps us when in need. 22. James 5:16 Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective. These Scriptures on prayer make it clear that it is something to be done in the community. When we pray with each other and for each other, we find God’s power and healing. 23. 1 Timothy 2:1–2 I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people—for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. In his instructions to a young pastor, the Apostle Paul says that we are to pray for everyone, especially those in power who may or may not honor God. These are challenging verses about prayer because they nudge us to look at the big picture and find hope in God’s kingdom when we pray. 24. 1 Peter 5:7 Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. In one of the simplest Scriptures about prayer, the Apostle Peter says to cast all our cares on the one who cares for us. 25. Revelation 5:8 And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people. It’s appropriate to wrap up these Bible verses about prayer with this image of what prayer looks like to God. It says the prayers of His people are like incense to Him. Through our prayers, we worship Him and fill up His house with wonderful fragrance. Related Reading: How to Start Prayer Journaling (With 20 Prompts for Women!) Want to put some of these Bible verses about prayer into practice? I have 7 days of prayer prompts to get you started. What do you think about these Bible verses about prayer? What did you learn, and what do you want to apply to your own life? Source link Read the full article

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3.] Biblical Definition of Love

But love according to JESUS & Paul is something very different, it's about this settled purpose to behave & choose to act in this way—sometimes you feel like it, sometimes you do not. [13:31] 

     You do it anyway, less love according to JESUS      & Paul—look at how Paul uses the word love

This is just almost at a random sampling of 3 different places, but where does Paul get his definition of the meaning of the word love?

Do you remember the Greek word Josh brought up last week? Greek noun for love is agape, so what does agape mean for Paul?

If we're supposed to be all about this as followers of JESUS—here's a few examples, so as he says in a letter to the Church in Galatia:

     He says I live by faith in the SON of GOD WHO      loved me, JESUS feels great about me today..

No that's not what he means.

He says the SON of GOD WHO loved me.

How do I know? Well look at what he did:

HE gave HIMSELF for me, his letter to the Ephesians “Hey followers of JESUS, follow GOD's example as dearly loved children & you yourselves walk in the way of love…”

What does that mean? Well here's an example, it's just like CHRIST loved us, HE feels great about you today. Well I think that's true.

But it's way more concrete than that.

………………………………………………………………………..……….. How do you know that HE loves you? Well HE gave HIMSELF up for us, I can point to JESUS's behavior & actions that took place in real time, in history. ………………………………………………………………………..………..

Like that's how I know, that's JESUS's love. Romans 5 he says GOD demonstrates HIS love for us in this: while we're hapless sinners—CHRIST died for us.

Now here he's not talking about JESUS's love.

He's talking about GOD's love..

How do you know that GOD loves you? I mean we can throw it up on billboards—but of course everybody's gonna read into it whatever they think love means..

3.1] Personal Understanding of Love

What does that mean to say to somebody: GOD loves you?

For a Christian it means to say JESUS gave HIMSELF for you, HE died for you, that is GOD's love for you

So I barely got out of high school, it gives me great joy to give a pop quiz where I graduated.. so when it comes to the use of the word love:

Who's life and teachings define what the word love means—if I'm a follower of JESUS, [action even in abscence of feelings]

If this happens in all kinds of ways — in becoming a follower of JESUS—there's religious vocabulary that I thought I knew or that Grandma talked about…

So you're introduced to this vocabulary faith & love —but in following JESUS—you build it all from the ground up, & love especially what does love mean?

Well the love we encounter growing up in school & so on—it's just not this, it's very different it's JESUS & it's about us and a settled purpose to act in a way that brings about the well-being of another person regardless of how they respond.

That's love for a Christian.

It's about a choice that I make.

That it's motivated by love, but you don't always feel that motivation—& so it comes down to a purpose to seek the well-being of another person regardless of

     How they respond to be & that motivation &      the action is what's referred to by agape & it      is not abstract—Paul says look at how JESUS      did things, that's what I'm talking about

That's how he knows that he's loved & so what we're going to do today is very practical—Paul's not going to let this remain theoretical in this letter he writes.

We're going to focus in on this small middle paragraph 1 Corinthians 13:4-8.

Paul gives 16 short like 2-3 word definitions of love so if you were curious about what word love means for a Christian:

     You have those examples, it refers to action      and something JESUS did that defines it, but      now Paul's going to give this full orb like 16      facets like a diamond & it's one thing but at      all these different ways to see it

     What it is & what it does

But before we do that, I want to get a word picture in our minds that emerge, as I was reflecting and thinking about how to talk about this

And also because the room where I graduated high school, I declare it to be Science Sunday for the next five minutes.

How to Love like JESUS P1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 | Tim Mackie [1 Corinthians 13:1-13]

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[please-call-us-useless]

I like to think of myself, not as a person, but as a group of creatures and things living in a dark, musty castle. Here, meet the gang:

1. A lizard person, meaning that I am a lizard, or I am surrounded by various types of lizard. It's fluid and changes depending on the day.

2. A Greek woman wearing a silk red dress, drinking red wine. I sit on the windowsill, proud that I just declined Zeus a shag. In fact, I'm going to join Dionysus' latest orgy after this bottle of wine is finished.

3. A 1940s New York gangsta. I wear the hat and suit, and say things with an accent.

4. A 17th century vampire. I built this castle. I walk around in black pants, a white shirt (unbuttoned), always carrying a goblet of blood. My vocabulary consists of slang from every generation.

5. A walking void. Occasionally, I have stars around me.

6. A giant rainbow Rubik's cube. Think like a biblical angel with all the eyes and stuff, but a Rubik's cube. Like a disco ball in the way it has pretty colours reflecting off it.

7. A black inkwell that constantly has new words on its mind. There's no impulse control. Once there is an idea, that's it, it has to be written into a full story. Except, the inkwell wants it to be done the second it thinks of the idea.

So that's the gang. They get along, occasionally. Some of the time they don't. They all live in the castle, and there is no way of knowing what could actually happen. And I personally think it should be a sitcom.

#long post #i think it’s neat

[hardoncaulfield]

Hii any advice on how to start learnin greek ??

Okay so, to clarify I study ancient greek and specifically attic greek (there are other dialectics of ancient greek like ionic and doric, there's also biblical greek which is known as koine) most students learn attic first because it’s easier then to learn other dialects.

The thing about Greek is that it's hard to go it alone, it's a difficult language but it's extremely rewarding and very fun and I love it. You'll need some good resources to help you get to grips with it:

This is a pdf of the textbook (Athenaze) I used as a beginner, from what I’ve heard it isn’t the best one out there, but I’m familiar with it and I personally did enjoy that the translation exercises are staged as a continuous story throughout the book. This is the complete text online from the companion answer book. 

This is a link to the Perseus online library which is the saving grace for all classicists. It has most Greek and Roman texts in both the original and with an English translation. Plus they have an extremely handy Greek word tool, which is fantastic for when you’re translating.  

Lexilogos is one of the best online Greek dictionaries I’ve found.

Here is another beginner’s textbook for variety, but I haven’t used this one personally so I can’t speak from experience. 

My advice is to take things slowly and make sure the basics are firmly in your mind before you move onto the next topic. Make sure you get to grips with using noun cases if you’ve never studied an inflected language before. Some of the grammar you’ll be learning in the beginning is really strange and quite frustrating, working in order through a textbook helps but it will still frustrate you - that’s just the nature of the language, it’s a wild ride. It does get easier! You won’t believe me, because I didn’t believe the people who told me this when I was a beginner, but it really does get easier the further you get into it. 

Try and test your vocabulary often, I used the memrise app which has the corresponding vocabulary for each chapter of the Athenaze textbook and gives you quizes and learning exercises - it’s a little boring but I felt it really helped me to learn the vocab - especially in the early days when I wasn’t as familiar with the way Greek words look and sound. Memrise is also available free online, if you don’t want to download an app. 

Also - if you can move on to translating real original texts soon, then do it. The sooner the better. It’s hard, but it’s rewarding and there’s something about being able to read a text in the original that is so special, even if it takes you several agonising hours with a dictionary and Perseus pouring over the grammar - it’s very nice to have that relationship with a text. Personally I’ve been sporadically translating from the Odyssey because I love it and I just wanted to have that intimacy with the text that you can’t get if you don’t make the effort to pull it across into your own language by yourself. 

Anyway, I’m excited for you - learning Greek is one of the best things I’ve ever done and I truly love the language. I hope your studying goes well!

#asks #anon #study advice #this is a studyblr #Greek

[kxowledge]

how many languages can you fluently speak, read, and write? :)

I'm only fluent in English and Italian. French comes next, but I still make errors when I write and fumble a lot when speaking (+ my vocabulary includes recondite theology-specific words, but sometimes not basic ones).

I spoke before about which languages and to which degree I know them here. As an update to that: I am now doing my third semester of Biblical Hebrew and it's going well. My Russian is non-existent. I spent a couple of months in Spain, which forced me to revise my Spanish. I'm also translating regularly texts from Ancient Greek and having loads of fun.

#replies #on languages #about me

[dharc16]

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN WITCHCRAFT

How many of you have heard someone say “there is no such thing as a Christian witch?” Maybe I should say, how many times each week do you hear this phrase?

Many pagans just cannot understand people self-identifying as Christian Witches. But they don't have to understand something to be accepting of it. There are an amazing number of Witchcraft traditions that have Christianity quietly tucked into their DNA somewhere. Nothing emerges in a vacuum and for the last 1700 years Christianity has been the elephant in the room, and Christianity stemmed from Judaism, whose texts originate back well before a lot of paganism's.

Christianity has influenced Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam over the last 1500 years, and ancient paganism was influenced by the believers in the God of Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel. This is how religions and belief systems work, and to think that modern paganism or “the witch community somehow stands outside of that paradigm is sheer hubris” (a quote from the pagan whose article influenced this lesson).

“One document consisted of notes originally taken by a man who was initiated into a group of four elderly women in the Oxfordshire village in which he lived in the years around 1940. They were a part of the teachings of this group, and consisted of the various magical uses to which twenty-six of the Biblical Psalms could be put sometimes consisting of the whole psalm and sometimes of a single verse. They are obviously classic Christian folk magic, of a sort recorded copiously from the early Middle Ages to the twentieth century, although the special importance of the psalms to Protestants would suggest that this use of them post-dates the Reformation” (Ronald Hutton writing on a witch book owned by Andrew Chumbley in “Triumph of the Moon,” in 1999 (p. 306-307).

You may not have heard of Andrew Chumbley, but his impact on Modern Witchcraft over the last 20 years has been extraordinary. Much of the current rise in “Traditional Witchcraft” can be traced in no small part to the work of Chumbley, who spent years documenting magical techniques and practices, most notably his own Sabbatic Tradition. Chumbley wasn't a Christian, but if he used the text written about above in his magical work, he was most certainly influenced by Christianity. And in the world of Traditional Witchcraft, such influences are common, not rare. Chumbley is also majorly responsible for the boom in high quality Witchcraft books from specialty publishers.

The first person most of us think of when it comes to Traditional Witchcraft is Robert Cochrane, whose witch group is still called The Clan of Tubal-Cain. Tubal-Cain was a descendant of Adam and Eve, and was a famous blacksmith that is mentioned in the Bible. He was not a figure from Greek mythology, as some believe. He was also not an Incan or a Mayan, as others believe. Traditional witchcraft also often references figures such as Lucifer or Satan or the Devil, and we all know where he came from.

If you have seen the book “The Red Goddess,” you will immediately notice the quotation from the Song of Solomon (that's a book in the Bible) on the back, not to mention all of the quotes from the book of Revelation which feature prominently in its text. And if you read a lot of Traditional Witchcraft books, you've no doubt run into figures such as the Nephalim, Watchers, and Enoch. Where do people think this stuff comes from?

In addition, there is a long history of Christians using magic. Many practices are influenced by charmers or cunning-folk. These are techniques practiced overwhelmingly by self-identifying Christians. Are you into Pennsylvania Dutch Pow-Wow? That's another thing developed by Christians.

Guess how many of the witches who were killed during the infamous witch hunts were pagans? None. None of them were pagan. They all identified as Christians.

Wiccan-witchcraft has also been heavily impacted by Christianity. The early modern grimoires which helped to shape a lot of Wiccan ritual practices were mostly written by Christians, and those that weren't were written by Muslims and Jews. All three of these religions worship the God of Abraham and their beliefs systems all stem from one religion. Abraham and his God are documented in ancient texts found in archaeological excavations. The names of many of those grimoires give away their Biblical roots: “The Key of Solomon,” “The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses,” and “The Grimoire of Pope Honorius” are just three examples of grimoires that were written by Biblical or Christian figures. And don't overlook just how impactful some of these books have been on Wicca especially. There are a lot of Wiccan teachings that read like they came straight from “The Key of Solomon.”

Wiccans have borrowed a whole lot of stuff from Freemasonry over the years, from vocabulary to ritual techniques, and the Masons were overwhelmingly Christian. Many of Masonry's most esoteric architects were Christian too, and many Wiccans have taken a little from them over the years too. Groups such as the Theosophical Society honored Jesus, and one of the world's all time favorite occultists, Dion Fortune, always found time for her Master Jesus.

So, yes, modern witchcraft owes Christians no small debt of gratitude for many of their practices. Today the world calls many of these things “witchcraft” so it makes sense that Christians looking to engage in these practices would call themselves Christian Witches.

Many witches who seem aghast at the idea of Christian Witches in their midst often quote the Bible to back up their outrage. And they have no idea what the verses they are quoting actually mean even! The word “witchcraft” can have a whole host of different meanings, and its use usually comes down to who is doing the translating.

The Bible condemns a lot of different things – such as lying and gossip and sexual immorality and fits of anger and arguments and envy and dishonoring your parents and drunkenness and breaking the Sabbath, among many others (for an example see Galatians 5:19-21) - and it says that those who do these things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But Christians seem to ignore most of these and focus on two communities – the LGBTQ community and the witchcraft communities – both of whose translations were mauled by the early Bible translators who were ALL under the influence of the man made doctrines of the churches of the Dark Ages.

If witchcraft is simply a magical practice, void of religion or spirituality, how can there not be Christian Witches? That is like saying that there can't be Jewish herbalists. Certainly the idea of witchcraft is not compatible with an overwhelming majority of Christians, because they believe the lies, but why should anyone else care if some of us DO believe in the power of magic that we KNOW we have been gifted with, while finding spiritual fulfillment in the God of Adam, Noah, Abraham, the disciples, Paul, and a multitude of others throughout history? It doesn't hurt them unless we try to start speaking for all of them. But all we can do is present the truth in love, and then back off to let the seed of truth grow in their hearts, watered by the Holy Spirit.

Witchcraft is empowering. Shouldn't Christians and pagans alike be all in for anyone with an open mind using it to take charge of their life? Shouldn't they be all for more witches in the world, not less?

This was based on an article by a well published pagan, Jason Mankey, who also agrees that Christians should be able to identify as witches if they feel drawn to do so, and that the witchcraft community should support this. Thank you, Jason.

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[rudjedet]

So, I am a total noob, but I am really interested in learning the Ancient Egyptian language and I was hoping you could help me by listing some books and dictionaries that you believe believe would help someone from going zero to hero with this amazing language.

First of, in case you weren’t already aware, you have to keep in mind that “Ancient Egyptian” isn’t a single language, but is comprised of 5 different language stages. Namely Old Egyptian, Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Demotic and Coptic. And then there’s Hieratic, which is a cursive script used to write down hieroglyphs on papyrus or ostraca. 

You always want to start with Middle Egyptian, which is something of the “classic” stage of the language, and the easiest. Old Egyptian is sort of similar but has a good number of extremely annoying grammatical deviations and pitfalls, and is actually one of the hardest stages of the language to learn. Late Egyptian is technically another language entirely, with different grammar but similar vocabulary. Demotic is a further evolution of Late Egyptian, but instead of hieroglyphs/Hieratic it’s written in Demotic script, which itself is derived from Hieratic. Coptic is the final stage, and this is written in an adapted version of the Greek alphabet. Here, again, you’ll be dealing with new grammar, script, and vocab. 

Since linking makes Tumblr autohide posts, I’ll copy+paste the book list to learn Middle Egyptian from an earlier ask.

Allen, J., 2014. Middle Egyptian: An Introduction To The Language And Culture Of Hieroglyphs. 3rd ed. Cambridge: CUP.

Collier, M. & Manley, B., 2003. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A Step by Step Guide. 2nd ed. London: British Museum Press.

Faulkner, R., 1962. A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian. Oxford: Griffith Institute.

Gardiner, A., 1957. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. 3rd ed. Oxford: Griffith Institute.

Ockinga, B.G., 1998. A Concise Grammar of Middle Egyptian. 3rd ed. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern.  

I was taught from Ockinga’s book and that’d be my preference, but others have been taught by/from Collier & Manley. The latter is a perfect book for non-academic beginners, so that would be the number one recommendation to learn Middle Egyptian. 

If you were interested in the other language stages, here are some other book recs:

Old Egyptian: 

Edel, E. 1955-64. Altägyptische Grammatik. Analecta Orientalia 34-39. Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum.  

Janssens, G. 1972.  Contribution to the verbal system in Old Egyptian: a new approach to the reconstruction of the Hamito-Semitic verbal system. Orientalia Gandensia VI. Peeters, Leuven.

Late Egyptian:

Černý, J. & Groll, S., 1993. A Late Egyptian Grammar. 3rd ed. Rome: Biblical Institute Publishing.

Junge, F., 2005. Late Egyptian Grammar an Introduction. Oxford: The Alden Press.

Lesko, L. & Lesko, B. eds., 2002. A Dictionary of Late Egyptian. 2nd ed. Providence: B.C. Scribe Publications.

Coptic: 

Lambdin, T.O., 1983. Introduction to Sahidic Coptic. 1st ed. Macon: Mercer University Press.

Reintges, C. H., 2004. Coptic Egyptian (Sahidic Dialect): A learners Grammar. Köln: Rüdiger Köppe Verlag.

In terms of order of learning, as said you want to start with Middle Egyptian. Then it’s best to have a go at Coptic before you move to Late Egyptian. Leave Old Egyptian last, and Demotic I’d not even suggest touching with a 10 ft pole.

#egyptology #learning #anon asks

[linguist-breakaribecca]

Tumblr, I need your help!

My best friend is a disabled veteran, with traumatic brain injuries, seizures, and memory issues. That often means it’s hard for him to maintain an interest because it gets frustrating to always feel like you can’t keep up with anything.

He’s developed a recent interest in Koine Greek, specifically the New Testament Greek but it’s branching off into him trying his best to teach himself syntax and vocabulary in general. I can help with the “What does genitive mean?” but I have zero knowledge of Greek itself.

So I’m reaching out to offer a paid position for a knowledgeable tutor in Koine Greek, who can host regular virtual sessions and will have the patience to repeat lessons as necessary. I know most language learning needs to go A -> AB -> ABC -> ABCD, but the ideal tutor would be willing to go A -> AB -> A -> AB -> ABC as needed by the student.

He has been working SO HARD, listening to children’s songs to remember the alphabet, taking copious notes so he doesn’t lose anything he’s gained, and I would be willing to pay someone just to help him achieve this goal.

It’s more of a scholarly pursuit to understand various Biblical languages rather than some religious quest, but he’s also down for conversations about religion in the abstract as well.

If you can help, or have a lead, please DM me here or email breakaribecca @ gmail dot com.

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