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I’m …

• 2 days behind on my New Testament reading plan (through the NT in 15 days)
• 1 day behind on my Old Testament reading plan (through the OT in 45 days)
• 3 days behind on my regular reading plan

On that note, I made a mistake the other day when I was describing the plans… the OT is 45 days, not 30.. meaning in that one time through the OT, I’ll work my way through the NT 3 times. I know, typical North American Christian who doesn’t pay much attention to the OT. But! My Biblical Hebrew is much more advanced than my Greek, and so I’ll be translating the OT much sooner… so I figure that balances out for now.

The reasons why I am behind… and I know it’ll sound like excuses, but meh. First, I took out the wrong book from the Library. I forgot that the Prof of my Postmodernism & Theology class mis-listed the books so that the order on the sheet wasn’t the order we were going to read them. So the book I picked up, we weren’t supposed to read for another like 6 weeks. So that put me behind on the readings for that class, and I spent today making it up.

In addition to that, we just had a lot of stuff to do at work… my office (which I share with my boss) is going through a kind of renovation.. Then this morning, it was supposed to be a Pastors Team meeting only – but the new Senior Pastor decided at the last minute to include the Interns as well.. I appreciate it, and it was helpful for me to really grasp the vision of my church, but that was basically the time I was planning to spend catching up on my readings..

So anyway, hopefully I’ll be caught up by the weekend…

I got an interesting, “urgent”, email from my Hebrew Professor the week before Christmas – a few days after the exam finished.

He says “I’ve marked all of the exams and there’s probably really only one person who will be totally satisfied with their mark.” As a result he was “willing to give 20% bonus on the exam right away if you promise to do a bonus assignment to be handed in on the first day of class.”

LOL! Oh man. I knew that it wasn’t me – the only person who would be happy with his mark, that is. Because I looked up the verses we translated right after the exam (I forget what it is now) and I completely missed the aspect of one whole portion of the text. One part was supposed to be imperative (commands) but I translated it as simple past tense. Hahaha!

So I’m working on that translation project now… It “consists of translating all of Genesis 6.  The assignment must be typed on a computer and each verse must be placed on a separate line and be properly labelled.  Include footnotes for translations that are not obvious.” I’m done 3 verses already, and I have 2 more weeks to do it. But I’m working on it slowly…

Hahaha.

Coming up soon, the texts I’m using in both my Hebrew classes, and in my tutorials with Luis. I’m also going to be working on a syllabus for a course I’m designing for my church – to teach Hebrew to laypersons. That’s gonna be interesting!