I had set myself some simple performance targets this time:
i) do not have a cold;
ii) do not lose return ticket.
In the event, I found that I had managed to leave most of the course papers behind. I also managed to leave my glasses in the taxi. And on the Sunday I woke up with a cold.
This time round, there were nine of us, and we managed our quota of 50 verses in a 90-minute session easily enough. The texts covered were:
Luke 1-15
1 Peter 1-5
1 Maccabees 1
Psalms 22 and 137.
Of these, Peter was a bit tricky at the beginning, while people definitely appreciated 1 Maccabees. Dr John Taylor, our tutor, gave a talk entitled ‘Between the testaments’ on the Saturday evening; he also seemed to have decided it was his job to keep the course members supplied with wine.
We had a sensible and non-garrulous female taxi driver for the drive to the station at the end, and I didn’t lose my return ticket.
Tags: Bible, Greek, Madingley Hall, New Testament Greek
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