Explaining the Greek Verb System
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jun 3 10:35:16 EDT 2002
What Charles does not mention (perhaps for fear it would prejudice his
comment, perhaps not) is that he is a former grad student at Washington
University with me and did a bit of work with me (mostly, I think, in Latin
rather than in Greek). We've had several students from Concordia Seminary,
which is very close to our campus, taking an M.A. in Classics with us while
working on an M.Div. at the seminary. Charles is one of several of those
who did well with us and has gone on to do well elsewhere.
At 4:18 AM -0400 6/4/02, schulc at cuaa.edu wrote:
>Friends,
>Perhaps I should rename this thread. I think the topic has shifted to
>"where to
>begin teaching Greek." I arrived at a university where I had started 14 years
>ago by learning classical Greek and I found that they had reverted to
>beginning
>with Koine. I'm switching it back this year. I have found the recent arguments
>in this thread for and against this decision very interesting.
>One additional point: one becomes more sensitive to the range of meaning of
>vocabulary words through exposure to additional texts. Too many students
>of the
>Bible study the Bible and the Bible alone as though it is a set of isolated
>texts and not part of a historical context. Beginning the student with non-
>Biblical texts will thus have the advantage of exposing them to the world in
>which the Scriptures were written. The example I've been using lately to
>defend
>this shift: When we translate 'oikos' we shouldn't think of a suburban ranch
>home. I've also found support for my shift back to classical from a survey
>among recent graduates who said that our school had done an excellent job in
>teaching them Greek grammar but a poor job in teaching them the cultures
>of the
>ancient world.
>
>Rev. Charles R. Schulz
>Assistant Professor of Religion
>Concordia University, Ann Arbor
>(734) 995-7384
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Carl W. Conrad
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