Teaching Top Down Analysis

Joseph A. Weaks jweaks at delta.is.tcu.edu
Sun Apr 30 23:06:28 EDT 2000


Carl, KTL,
As a beginning Ph.D. in New Testament, have ye a suggested resource 
on Discourse Analysis as we are discussing it here? (book, web 
resource, personal notes).
I'm doing a seminar on Classical Rhetoric with Richard Enos in the 
Fall, and would value this background as I begin.
Thanks,
Joe



At 10:07 PM -0500 4/30/00, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>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.
>

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