[B-Greek] Advancing from the Basics (many questions)
Granby at SAFe-mail.net
Granby at SAFe-mail.net
Tue Apr 1 12:30:59 EST 2003
I'm teaching myself greek and I'm finally starting to 'get it'. I can read large sections of Luke and Paul without any help, as well as some non-biblical koine. Eventually I would like to be able to read classical greek.
(Where I'm at) I've worked through Mounces BBG, his Graded Reader, and I'm fairly far along in memorizing all the stems in 'Greek Word Building' by Matthias Stehle.
Whats the best course of action from here.
Reading or more Study?
What is the most literary Greek in the LXX to read? (I've been starting to tackle Proverbs and was thinking about working all the way through it as good practice)
There is a web site with greek versions of Aesops Fables (both Babrius and Syntipas) that I've been reading through. I was reading many of the Syntipas versions fairly succesfully. I then learned that Syntipas wrote much later in history than the NT in a form of byzantine Greek. Is this true (there seems to be conflicting information on the web)? Would it be a bad idea to continue working with these if I want to transition to Classical? If these are good practice which would be more useful to read - Babrius or Syntipas?
I was hoping to pick up Classical greek by just reading progressively difficult greek. Is this practical, is there a recommended reading course of authors to do this?
What would be a good classical greek textbook in case I get stalled?
Would I be better off working through Wallace's intermediate grammar, or tackling a classical textbook?
Thanks in advance
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