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<H2><FONT FACE="Palatino Linotype"><FONT COLOR="Blue"><I>Address</I></FONT COLOR>: Akatsutsumi 1-43-1-405, Setagaya-Ku, Tokyo 156-0044, Japan
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The Hours and Typika[http://sites.google.com/a/japan.lakeland.edu/hours-and-typika/home] are back, new and improved!
<BR><FONT COLOR="Blue"><I>E-mail</I></FONT COLOR>: jfbockman3rd AT aol .co m
 
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<BR><FONT COLOR="Blue"><I>Likes</I></FONT COLOR>: Languages and teaching, classic movies, Irish music, English ale on tap, cycling and mountain hiking, Japanese hot springs, <I>The Elder Scrolls: Morrowind</I> game.
 
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<BR><FONT COLOR="Blue"><I>Dislikes</I></FONT COLOR>: Neckties, dead-fish handshakes, wet doorknobs.
 
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<BR><FONT COLOR="Blue"><I>Curriculum Vitae</I></FONT COLOR>:
 
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<BR>Born in Roswell, New Mexico, 1953. Raised in Tucson, Arizona.
 
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<BR>Chrismated into the Orthodox Church, 1974.
 
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<BR>Master of Arts degree in (teaching) English as a Second Language, University of Arizona, 1977.
 
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<BR>Moved to Japan, 1979.
 
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<BR>Married Naomi Sophia Ozaki, at the Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Tokyo, 1981.  (<FONT FACE="SYMBOL">O anhr authV hnesen authn, Pollai qugatereV ekthsanto plouton, pollai epoihsan dunata, su de uperkeisai kai uperhraV pasaV.</FONT> (Ihr Mann lobt sie: «Es sind wohl viele tüchtige Frauen, du aber übertriffst sie alle. / Su esposo la alaba: Muchas mujeres han realizado proezas, pero tú las superas a todas. [Prov. 31:28-29])
 
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<BR>One daughter, born 1982.  Permanently disabled and living at home.
 
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<BR>Took up study of Greek, ca. 1996.
 
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<BR>A pilot page of an Interlinear Greek-Japanese Gospel of St. John was rejected by a religious publisher in Tokyo, ca. 1997. (A Jesuit classicist scholar who reviewed the page objected to the pronunciation scheme from the Greek textbook I'd been using.)
 
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<BR>Took up biblical studies, 1999-2000.
 
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<BR>Bought my first computer and resurrected the interlinear Gospel, Feb. 2000.  It was published by the Holy Resurrection Cathedral, Tokyo, some time before Pascha, 2004.
 
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<BR>Learned HTML and began work on an on-line Greek-English version of the Interlinear Gospel of St. John, July 2004. (To access it, go to http://www.geocities.com/jbockman3rd/. Also feel free to visit my <I>Greek Lectionary for Orthodox</I> at http://lectionary.tripod.com/.)
 
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<BR>Currently an instructor at Nevada-California International Consortium of Universities and Colleges, Tokyo, preparing Japanese high school graduates for foreign study.</UL>
 

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The Hours and Typika[1] are back, new and improved!