For those of you interested, I thought I'd include an update on how my exams are going. (For the newbies among you, I'm a theological student at the Presbyterian College in Melbourne.) I've had three so far, and one more to go - New Testament next Wednesday.
Church history was on Tuesday, and whereas the expected question on Whitefield failed to materialise, there seemed to be enough questions that I knew something about - just. I ended up writing literally everything I knew on John Mott and Samuel Marsden, (yeah, don't worry - I hadn't heard of them before this year, either) and a rather patchy essay on the history of the Scottish Reformation. I wrote 12 pages in the allotted two hours, which was good - the same as I did last semester when I romped in with a High Distinction.
Hebrew was yesterday, and I realise now that I had made a huge blunder ins tudying - I didn't put enough time into practising my pointing. That's where you're given the consonants and have to add the vowel signs in yourself. I reckon I got just about every word wrong. The rest of the exam was fine, but I'd be lucky to get 25% for the pointing section.
And I had Old Testament today. That was interesting - we had to answer three questions, and only two covered topics that I had actually studied - the respective roles of the leaders and people in Ezra-Nehemiah (see my post from a few days ago) and the importance of Daniel 7 in the structure and teaching of the book. So I had to find another question to bluff my way through, and I picked YHWH's relationship to the suffering in the book of Lamentations. I think it went really well, considering...
So that's where I'm at. Not long to go now. Tonight I relax, grab some Portuguese chicken for dinner. Tomorrow is another big study day. A big thank you to all those who have been praying for me. God is good.
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