Dobson - Learn NT Greek
Randall Buth
ButhFam at compuserve.com
Mon Jun 10 10:37:26 EDT 2002
shalom Eric,
>In the first 13 chapters, the student has been given or exposed to the
>definite article, the present tense, demonstrative pronouns, the
>subjunctive mood, relative pronouns, participles -- yet NONE of these
>terms/words has been used in the text. Dobson does introduce these, or
>some of these, terms later on ... sometimes MUCH later on, it seems. But I
>think it would be useful to acquaint the students with this knowledge
>early on.
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If the student is learning GREEK, (not English), why does it matter when
they learn to interact with an English word like "subjunctive"?
(NB: I am not saying that the student will not want to learn these ENGLISH
grammar terms at all. As you mentioned, they are useful for listening to
people
talk about Greek in English. I'm trying to point out that the sky is blue,
water
is wet, and Greek is Greek. [And yes, I'm aware that all of these points
are
debatable.])
ERRWSO
Randall Buth, PhD
Jerusalem
www.biblicalulpan.org
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