Exams finished yesterday! I had 2 -
Greek Grammar on Thursday… It was a 3 hour exam that I finished in 45 minutes (30 minutes of writing, 15 of reviewing). Not that I’m super amazing in Greek… just that I studied REALLY HARD for it. We covered the first 12 chapters of our text book (David Allan Black’s grammar). And I’m pretty sure I’ve read those chapters at least 4 times each.
Oh and not that I’m doing really well with my Greek. I’m still having a lot of difficulties with memorizing Vocabulary – which anyone who has ever learned another language knows is pretty much integral to the whole process. I really need to step it up that’s all, but doing Hebrew at the same time is really messing with me..
That brings me to my second exam, the one yesterday, which was Hebrew Syntax. That was a 3 hour exam too, but unlike the Greek I took the entire 3 hours to finish it. I’m pretty sure, in fact, that that was the only time I’ve ever used up an entire exam period (I’ve taken maybe 25 exams for my undergrad at UofT).
It was really funny – or sad, depending on how you look at it – but with about 30 minutes left on the exam, I was kind of chillin’, taking my sweet time translating what I thought was the last verse. Good thing the prof had to make a correction on the last page of the exam… yup, I actually had 2 more verses to translate! Man that was close! God is good eh? Keeping me from doing stupid things like forgetting to answer an entire page of the exam!
Anyway, I expect decent grades for these two classes… not amazing. But decent…
Coming soon, just some reflections about learning the Original Biblical Languages, and why I think pretty much every Christian who actually reads the Bible should learn even the basic grammars…
