Greek and why I like studying it

I love Greek. I really do.

For a while I thought it was because it made me look smarter because it is of such small interest in this part of the country. Or because I got to specialize early on and look cool talking to a professor like I knew what was going on. Or because I got to belong to a very narrow group and exclude other people (because we all know that exclusion is the key to superiority).

But lately, I've noticed that, though these things are probably still true and I'm a sinner, I love Greek. I like getting tough passages and solving the puzzle. I like seeing what difference a tense can make. I love to read through familiar parts of the Bible slowly while translating and see it come to life anew. I like bickering about tiny little translating things, trying to figure out the best English version for the Greek (Gringlish is unintelligible). I also like getting to know people in the context of translating. You start to see what is important to them in passage and sometimes their translations can be very telling about them.

So, I love Greek. I do. You should study it. Doug will teach you.