[B-Greek] My results of teaching NT Greek with Dobson's text

bgreek at ranulf.net bgreek at ranulf.net
Fri Aug 1 11:14:19 EDT 2003


Hi all,

>From what I've seen (I'm in the UK), I'd expect NAGD to be the popular
form, and in fact NGDA just seems plain weird to me!

Having learnt Latin at school about 14 years ago, we definitely had
"nom. acc. gen. dat. abl." drilled into us. Since the ablative isn't
used in Greek (or rather its uses have been moved to other cases),
I'd expect Greek to be nom, acc, gen, dat and my current text book, 
Wenham, also uses this. I hadn't even noticed that other people *did*
it differently until today!

I can't see, though, the rationale for putting accusative last, as
its use is presumably far more common that genitive and dative.

I happened to be glancing at a modern Greek text book this lunchtime,
and that certainly taught NAG as the order, noting that dative has fallen
out of common use except for a few words, and the ending -Hi has generally
been replaced by -EI(S) in these few words. Presumably similarly for -Wi,
although all the examples cited were -EI.

Ranulf Doswell, UK



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