Graham Sommers
about the teacher
Graham Sommers fell in love with Greek and Hebrew in high school through an early college program at the University of Northwestern, St. Paul. He graduated with a B.A. in Liberal Arts and Culture from New St. Andrews College where he learned to speak Latin and took graduate-level courses in Hebrew. He is currently creating a Hebrew version of Picta Dicta and writing Hebrew novellas. He is a language instructor for Davenant Institute, and teaches Latin online for Trinity Christian School, HI. You can find him poring over some ancient text like the Greek fragments of Enoch or the angelic liturgy of Dead Sea Scrolls. He loves Augustine, Dostoevsky, and Midrash, and wants to live to see a renaissance of Christian Hebraism. He is now pursuing an M.A. in Theology at Marquette University. Graham lives in Milwaukee, WI with his wife Hope.
Teaching Philosophy
Education is not merely a transfer of information. It is the process of a student becoming like his teacher by imitating his teacher’s love and posture. A student not only acquires some part of what his teacher knows but more importantly he may gain some part of his teacher’s love for the subject. This kindling of …