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Still at work

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Although a health issue prevented me from teaching at the Mekane Yesus Seminary this fall, I have still been at work on the project. The hermeneutics class, for instance, has forty-one supplemental readings in addition to the textbook. I have now worked through all the readings creating an abstract and study guide for each, along with cleaning up the .pdf files (splitting documents with two pages per sheet, tidying margins, and getting new copies without annotations for some).

The next step is to add these materials to the course website.

The Greek course is temporarily on hold awaiting possible curricular revision.

As the seminary will recruit its next class of PhD students for the fall of 2026, I am praying that my health will improve so that I can accomplish my dream of teaching for a semester at MYS in the fall of 2026.

First PhD class with their new Greek New Testaments

First PhD class at MYS

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Although health issues prevented me from teaching this year, I remain so excited about the launch of a PhD program at the MYS seminary in Addis Ababa. I present here a photo of the fist PhD class, each student holding the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece 28 provided by friends and colleagues who responded my request. I look forward to meeting these new scholars in the future.

Teaching the next generation

Teaching postponed

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Sadly, I have postponed my teaching at the Mekane Yesus Seminary after last-minute surgery revealed a significant health issue. My prayer is that treatment and healing will allow me to travel to Addis for a future semester. 2 Cor 12:7b-10 informs my perspective on this moment.

The image above is a photo of a painting I acquired near one of the ancient monasteries on Lake Tana near Bahir Dar. It depicts teachers instructing the next generation in the scriptures (a seminary scene).

 

ATLAS home page

A wonderful bonus and a blessing…

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A couple months back, I approached colleagues and former students to raise money for the purchase of new Greek New Testaments for the first and incoming PhD class at the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa. These folks were so generous and over-subscribed the fund drive!

Atlas by AtlaAnd their generosity overflows… A number of them agreed to redirect their gift to help the CSP Library sponsor a subscription for the seminary to ATLAS, an online resource from the American Theological Library Association, with full-text copies of articles from over four-hundred theological journals. This database is the premier research tool in the world for theological scholarship. Because of this blessing by these donors, the Mekane Yesus Seminary in Addis Ababa now has this resource available for its students. It want live today and I have already accessed it.

And the students in my classes this fall will be using it often in my classes!!!

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