Axioms of NT Greek Grammar

Dave Washburn dwashbur at nyx.net
Sun Jun 24 15:19:15 EDT 2001


Harry,
> When I spoke of the," Axioms of NT Greek Grammar" I simply ment the
> established rules of NT Greek grammar that's not based on inductive
> reasoning. We of course get these rules from modern Greek as well as
> sources closer to our time than NT Greek. I guess you could call these
> rules, the "Mechanics" of the language.

I don't know of any grammars that actually apply rules of modern 
Greek to NT Greek, but perhaps you've seen some works that I 
haven't since I've spent the last several years focusing more on 
Hebrew than on Greek.  Nevertheless, modern Greek can only tell 
us so much, ditto for Byzantine Greek; induction is pretty much 
the only approach we have available for figuring out the mechanics 
of a dead language, whether Koine Greek, Palestinian Aramaic, 
Ugaritic or any other such language.  I don't think it's correct to 
write off something simply because it's arrived at by an inductive 
approach, because I haven't seen any demonstration that an 
inductive approach is incorrect.

Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"You just keep thinking, Butch.  That's what you're good at."




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