Theolexica

Intro The church we are attending in Estonia, Grace Bible Church, uses the Second London Baptist Confession as their statement of faith. I really appreciate a church using a historic confession. It keeps you grounded in the historic faith and connects you to a line of believers. In general, I think it is a bad idea for a church to draft their own statement of faith. It tends to be idiosyncratic and too narrow (both in failing to address things that it should and addressing things that it shouldn’t). ...

This is a quick tool for helping you memorize Bible Verses or really any text. I use this as part of the process for memorizing verses, catechism, poems, or any text I want to remember before I put them in Anki. Anki is great for memorizing things that you already have a handle on. You don’t want to use it to learn a verse from scratch. This tool helps to gradually learn the text by removing parts until you can type the whole thing. It’s a quick and dirty solution, but gets the job done. ...

Why How to get the keyboard on a mac and iphone. TODO: add a screenshot of the keyboard

Preface I appreciate the focus on learning to read and write. Seeems to have a rigorous approach to learning the language at a deeper level. In general, this is a good thing. Language learning has been reduced to a lowest common denominator. The focus is not on learning the language in order to read, but learning the language enough to read a technical commentary. Pastors should have a deep understanding of their field. They should know their bibles, from the languages through to NT and OT issues, and up to theology and applied studies. The fundamentals of the languages are really important. ...

Linking Toc In My Docs This is a Hugo site. The nice thing about that for me is that all of my blog pages are written in markdown files. It makes it really portable and easily searchable. If I want to change something programatically, I can grep throught it all and do a find and replace in vim. Since it’s markdown, I can add any html that I need if I want to get fancy. ...

What These are my guides for anything Greek related. I’ll throw resources in here and try to keep it somewhat organized as I go. As always, use the Greek tag to find all the posts. Grammars I occasionally work through different Greek grammars. I used Black’s in seminary. I taught through Mounce’s at one point. Schwandt’s Grammar Notes It’s been a while and my greek is getting rusty, so I am working through Schwandt’s An Introduction To Biblical Greek A Grammar. I picked this one because I already had it in Logos, and I appreciate most things by Lexham Press. ...

What These are all of my study guides for my Latin studies. I’ve used a number of sources: Wheelock’s Latin Learn to Read Latin Lingua Latina Goals Throw together my own personal notes, charts, and anki decks. Non Goals Create a systematic set of notes. Map to a particular grammar. No attempt at comprehensiveness. Use the Latin tag to find all related notes.

See also: West, Gerald O. “Tracking an Ancient Near Eastern Economic System: The Tributary Mode of Production and the Temple-State.” Old Testament Essays (New Series) 24, no. 2 (2011): 511–32. Amemiya, Takeshi. “Comment on Davies.” In The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris, 157–62. Social Science History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. Davies. “Linear and Nonlinear Flow Models for Ancient Economies.” In The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, edited by J. G. Manning and Ian Morris, 127–56. Social Science History. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005. ...

A list of vocabulary that is used to determine relationships between languages. Wikipedia Entry

Sound Changes i > e Before the consonants r and h, i could change to e. This is inconsistent (cf. nakirum, nakerum, nakrum) a > e a and e vowels would not exist in the same word. The a would become an e. *bēlātum > bēlētum Exceptions: There are a number of precise rules, but the gist is that if it is part of an ending or connection to an ending, the a is unchanged. III-weak G Verbs III-weak verbs are verbs that are missing the third radical. (It has dropped out.) Basic rules for forming the verb: If the third radical would have occurred after a vowel, nothing happens (end in the vowel). ...