[B-Greek] Studying the Word of God MUST READ!!!

Kevin Riley klriley at alphalink.com.au
Sun Sep 14 19:48:25 EDT 2003


Amen to your first paragraph!  I am tempted to believe that enthusiastic
amateurs with no knowledge of how Greek works, but with an interlinear or
small reference grammar or lexicon in which to make momentous discoveries of
what Greek 'really means' are the modern 'false prophets' of the church.  If
I hear one more argument based on 'the aorist HAS to refer to past and
completed events', or 'if you take Strong's definition number 3 of 'X' and
apply it everywhere that word occurs in the GNT you will see what God is
REALLY trying to teach us', or [my favourite!] 'the root meaning of 'X' is
'Y', and that is how we MUST understand the word wherever it occurs' I think
I will be asking for the GNT to be locked safely in University libraries and
only released to those who have actually *studied* NT Greek for more than 3
weeks.  While as a Protestant it pains me to say this, I do understand why
the RC church has at times felt it was dangerous to allow laymen access to
the Bible.  I don't mean to discourage learners [which I still am] from
learning and using Greek, just to encourage a 'goodly amount' of study
before sending your wisdom far and wide.

A book I am enjoying and use often is "Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics" by
Wallace.  I wish I had had it in my second year of Greek, but it's writing
was still some years away at that time.

Kevin Riley

>-----Original Message-----
>From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of PAProphet at aol.com
>Sent: Sunday, 14 September 2003 11:44 PM
>
>Hello,
>     The tools that you mentioned are OK but they can get you into
>trouble.
>I have seen so many people claim to understand New Testament Greek based
>solely on the use of these items.  And because such tools do not
>go deeply into the
>NT Greek language the person who relies on them is only getting surface
>information.
>     This year I finished Greek one and two at the Biblical Theological
>Seminary in Pennsylvania.  The text book that we used was "Basics
>of Biblical
>Greek" by Mounce.  This seems to be the common seminary text.  If
>you are doing
>self study I would also recommend a cheap but good software
>package by Parsons
>Technology called Greek Tutor.  It roughly covers a year of NT
>Greek and it will
>help you with your pronunciation.
>     Also, there are a few good Internet resources available.  One
>site has
>the lectures on audio of I believe a Greek One class.  And there
>is one school
>that I know of which offers Greek and Hebrew online.  (Site One:
>http://www.rtsvirtual.org/  Site Two:
>http://www.biblicaltraining.org/classes/greek/greek_f.html)
>     So in a nutshell:
>
>1.  Get Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce
>2. Get Parson's Technology "Greek Tutor"
>3. Listen to the online lectures found at
>http://www.biblicaltraining.org/classes/greek/greek_f.html
>4.  Possibly take an online Greek course at http://www.rtsvirtual.org/
>
>     Take care.
>
>Mark
>---




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