[B-Greek] 2 Thess 3:11, TINAS PERIPATOUNTAS
Garret
garret at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 21 18:55:26 EDT 2003
On 10/21/03 4:06 PM, "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
> I personally think that the synchronic focus of NT Greek studies tends to
> blind teachers and students of NT Greek to the fact that the language of
> the NT is in flux, that constructions such as the participial indirect
> discourse with a verb of perception once standard in classical Koine are
> considerably rarer in NT Koine but still used by those writers especially
> (e.g. Luke, Paul) who probably had grammatical and literary instruction in
> a school. First-year Koine grammars teach the constructions that are more
> common and tend to ignore or give short shrift to those less common. It
> wouldn't hurt at all for students of NT Koine to read considerably more
> Greek outside of the Biblical corpus and outside of the NT era.
I hope I am not being rude coming into this discussion at this point, but I
think that this is a very good point.
If you don't mind me asking Carl, what would be in your opinion good reading
of this time period.
Homer, Eusebius or archives of documents found at Qumran?
Thanks
-Garret
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Garret Parsons
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Northmount Baptist Church
Certificate in Ministry
Cary Theological Collage,
Regent Collage.
E-mail: garret at shaw.ca
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