Oh-oh Σωζω

Χαρις ὑμιν,

Yesterday was stuffed full o’ good stuff!

Because of our day off the previous week, we ended up cramming two lessons into one class, as well as a quick review of the adjectival attributive & predicate position from L12’s. But everyone must have been enjoying it because we ran 15 minutes over our time and didn’t even notice!

There was also a bit of speed-bump, pedagogically-speaking. During the teaching on the final stem mute/future sigma combination section of L13, Trish asked, “What about ζ? What’s the future of σωζω?”

I was immediately thrown aback. I knew it was σωσω, but when I couldn’t find the reason it was σωσω in my lesson notes, my brain did a little synaptic Jitterbug! “Yeah,” I thought, “What about ζ?

Well, we took a frantic moment or two to find the 3rd person singular form in Trish’s Greek NT and, yes, the ζ definitely drops out—but I simply could not remember why! I knew I’d come across it in my preparation for the class, but just could not understand why it wasn’t in the notes.

Well, not to worry, everyone, it’s in there now! Here’s what happened: The Wenham’s grammar I used for the template of my lesson discusses the future forms of the non-mute stem consonants in a separate chapter (disguised as a discussion on “present stems” and “verbal stems”—eww), so I didn’t included it. But I’d listened to a much more satisfying lesson on it on my iPod! I’ve got Dr James Voelz’s Fundamental Greek Grammar iTunes lecture series on there and I always try to hear his take on the particular topics I’m teaching; helps give me a much deeper understanding of the material.

So, the upshot is, I’ve rewritten that section of L13 and will be posting it soon. I’ll also email everyone the corrected version (along with the similarly corrected L13 future table). And the new L14, too.

I’ll also mail out the last couple of WLG’s. Not sure why, but it seems a couple of people didn’t get them—or, more probably, I forgot to send them.

Okay, all for now—oh, except to say I’m working on a slightly different format for the L14 Practical Exercise. Should be finished tomorrow, so you’ll have by tomorrow night.

God bless,
Ἰακωβος