Teaching Top Down Analysis
Jonathan Robie
Jonathan.Robie at SoftwareAG-USA.com
Sun Apr 30 23:07:57 EDT 2000
At 12:48 PM 4/30/00 -0700, clayton stirling bartholomew wrote:
>The current crop of seminary students still seem to be convinced that the
>real "payoff" in exegesis is found in lexical analysis (word studies) and
>clause level syntax analysis. Why is this still the case?
Because in their churches, at conferences, and on the radio, when a
preacher says "now in the original Greek..." what follows is usually
lexical analysis. And that, in turn, is at least partially because lexical
analysis is easier, requiring relatively little real understanding of Greek
- especially if it is merely mediocre lexical analysis, the good stuff is,
of course, harder, but rarer.
We've had a fair amount of clause level syntax analysis on B-Greek, and I
think that the interaction with real experts has made this a very
approachable place for many relative beginners to get exposed to clause
level analysis. It's certainly done that for me.
Jonathan
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