[B-Greek] ? - please respond

Ben and Jo Crick ben.crick at argonet.co.uk
Sun Dec 7 08:58:37 EST 2003


On Fri  5 Dec 2003 (19:24:16), Matthew Creeden wrote:
> For the last three months I have been studying NT Greek at the
> seminary.  I have a final on Monday which I do not think I will do well
> on.  I have found this endeavor, which I was very excited about at the
> beginning, to truly be painful and almost wasteful in terms of time.
> [snip]

 Dear Matthew

 After 1 semester of NT Greek, a friend and I decided to spend 40 minutes a
 day in my study or his, working through Mark's Gospel KATA MARKON. We did it
 verse by verse, construing and parsing each word as we came to it, using our
 Greek Grammar (Moulton and Milligan) and the Abbot-Smith lexicon. We also had
 Bruce Metzger's /Lexical Aids for Students of NT Greek/ to hand.

 At first we only did about 3 verses a day; but after a while we were
 cruising along nicely doing ten or fifteen verses a day. We reviewed our
 work by reading the text aloud in Greek, and trying to comprehend it *as
 Greek*, without translating it in our heads as we went.

 Pronunciation is not important, as NT Greek is a dead language. You don't
 speak it; you read it. To remember how to spell a word, we pronounced each
 vowel combination AI, EI, EU, etc "as written" instead of etacising every
 diphthong (pronouncing it as if it were an Eta) as the modern Greeks tend to
 do.

 We used the "Wide Margin" edition of the UBS Greek NT to make jottings and
 notes alongside the text as we went along.

 Stick at it, bro!  You've done the hard part already!  Now begin to enjoy...

 EN CRISTWi,

 Ben
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