For those of you interested in learning more about the approach and exegetical methodology I have been using here on the blog, you may be interested to know that I will be offering a one week discourse workshop this summer in mid June in Bellingham, WA. Attendees would attend the workshop in the morning, then apply what was learned to a corpus of their choosing (about 200 verses), then meet back in the late afternoon for Q&A and debriefing about what was gleaned. I have participated in and facilitated such a workshop and found it very effective. If you are considering adopting the Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament as a textbook, this would be a great chance to get up to speed for the Fall. The Logos version should be released in the next few weeks, and a print version is underway, likely in time for the Fall. Details on all of this later, but thought you might want to know for planning purposes.
Discourse workshop in June
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Steve,
I would definitely be interested in the workshop, but do you want just professors or is it open to us preachers too? What level of Greek knowledge would be prerequisite? Craig
Craig, It will be open to anyone with at least a year of Greek under their belt. If you can follow my posts and make sense of the Discourse Grammar excerpt, you should be fine. I taught this as a DMin course last year, and the attendees left with the rough exegesis completed for a sermon series on their corpus. It is very practically oriented, which you’d probably know to expect by now.
Look like the dates will be June 3-9, 2010. There will be a registration page up soon with the details.
Much the same as the DMin class? Or should we expect some differences?
JJ
I expect there will be a bit more depth but it will cover much the same ground. I would like to spend the time devoted to discussion of assignments to discussing the verbal system in light of the rest of the overall framework. We will be breaking it over a weekend with a picnic Saturday, so there should be more time for general dialogue than at Knox.
If I started walking now, maybe I could be there by June… 🙁