Thursday, September 2, 2010

Learning the Greek alphabet can be easy

Justin Taylor posted an mp3 for learning the Greek alphabet from Michael Graening, a Southeastern Seminary student. Listen to it here.

The song is good, but I think Richard Belcher has a much easier method to memorize the Greek alphabet. Here's his suggestion from A Practical Approach to the Greek New Testament:

Use the tune of "Onward Christian Soldiers" with the Greek alphabet as the lyrics.

Alpha, Beta, Gamma,
Delta, Epsilon,
Zeta, Eta, Theta,
Iota, Kappa, Lambda,
Mu, Nu, Xi, and Omnicron,
Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau,
Upsilon, and Phi, Chi, Psi,
and last Omega.

Onward Christian scholars,
Learn the alphabet.
Then when test day cometh,
You'll have no regret.

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