Wever's Note's on Greek text of Genesis

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Tue Dec 28 17:32:27 EST 1999


To: Clayton Stirling Bartholomew,

CSB: << My first impression is that Steven's remark: "For an intermediate 
student wanting a better grasp of Greek, these notes might be seen to be of 
little value" is misleading. I think that these books would be very useful 
to an "intermediate student" because Wevers explains a lot of things about 
Hellenistic Greek which would fall into the beginning-intermediate 
category. This is not intended to be a quibble. >>

And what's wrong with quibbling? Why not quibble and be proud of it? I 
would like to quibble, at least just a bit. I would like to note that the 
statement of mine which you quoted contained the qualification "might." I 
never suggested that an intermediate student couldn't find anything of 
value in Weavers' book, only that helping the intermediate student to 
better understand Greek was not Wevers'  primary goal. It seems to me that 
my statement, in its proper context, was more balanced than you seem 
willing to give credit. What I wrote was:

SCM: << It is written for the advanced student. It is assumed that one 
knows how to read Hebrew and Greek. Wevers' notes are not designed to teach 
an intermediate student how to better read Greek, although an intermediate 
student might find Wever's notes of some value if he or she was attempting 
to read through one of these LXX books. But the central stress of these 
notes is placed on understanding how the LXX translators translated the 
Hebrew text. For an intermediate student wanting a better grasp of Greek, 
these notes might be seen to be of little value. >>

If the above is "misleading," it surely isn't "misleading" by much. <grin>

Just quibbling,

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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