The collection is growing rapidly and supported by a substantial secondary resource. This is but a sample of the many resources that will improve your observation skills. After you ve observed the text you ve got, discover its meaning. When you ve zeroed in on the correct interpretation, it s probably wise to check your work against that of others. The Internet affords a host of interpretive resources.
Interpretation often begins with defining the text s crucial words.
This involves surveying a word s use in biblical and extra-biblical literature to determine possible fields of meaning. The Perseus Project is just the tool you need. This digital library, produced by the Department of Classics at Tufts University, is a vast collection of ancient Greek literature. Over three million words can be read contextually in Greek, transliterated English or an English translation. Every word is parsed, glossed and linked to every other instance of that same word in the entire collection.