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Two of the major challenges for an instructor of any language course are (1) the limited amount of exercise material available for students and (2) compromised exams requiring the laborious creation of new exams. These challenges increase significantly when teaching biblical languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek). However, BibleOnlineLearner (BibleOL) has now addressed both of these challenges. When an instructor uses BibleOL, he/she can easily create an exercise that targets a specific learning object (e.g., learning the Greek present tense of the regular conjugation). BibleOL then creates randomized exercises for each student. Unless the instructor decides otherwise, the BibleOL exercise will be different for every student and can be completed an infinite number of times while the difficulty level remains the same. There are, however, two caveats. First, a BibleOL exercise and its embedded randomization engine is democratic in nature. This means the most frequent forms in the database (e.g., the Greek NT) will also appear most frequently in the exercise. Thus, an exercise that targets the mastering of the Greek present tense will mainly show the student 3sg and 3pl present tense forms. Other number and person combinations will be underrepresented. This selection principle also applies to vocabulary. The second caveat relates to syntax. Developing meaningful syntax exercises is not currently possible. This article shows how both limitations (democratic randomization, absence of syntax exercises) can be overcome when BibleOL is used in combination with the new Text- Fabric edition of the Greek NT (N1904-TF).

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