Relative difficulty of GNT books

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Aug 3 13:52:01 EDT 2002


At 12:40 PM -0700 8/3/02, James Bowick wrote:
>I am trying to brush up on my College Greek, and have read 1 John and John.
>I started Mark but am finding it a fair bit tougher.  Is this just a
>difference in Mark's and John's language that I will get used to?  Or is
>Mark more difficult and I would be better to try another book?

Mark certainly IS more difficult than 1 John and John's gospel; it's not
uniformly difficult but it has some pretty difficult passages despite being
generally pretty simple. If you're looking for something easy, you might go
with Revelation, although there are some grammatical oddities there.
Standard good Koine prose is Luke, considerably more uniform than Mark, I
think, but definitely a step up stylistically and in difficulty from the
Johannine literature.
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