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

Doug Hoxworth dhoxworth at charter.net
Mon Sep 15 11:08:02 EDT 2003


if eric is talking about the first chapter in the book 
(which is a wonderful chapter) you can read it online 
here:

http://www.zondervan.com/Books/Detail.asp?ISBN=0310246857

click on the "Take a Closer Look Button" or click the 
following:

http://www.zondervan.com/media/pdfs/0310246857_samptxt.pdf

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 20:29:10 -0500
  "Eric Weiss" <eweiss at gte.net> wrote:
>Before you take Greek, you (speaking from personal 
>experience) think you
>know how to do "word studies" and expound deep, profound 
>truths about
>"the original Greek" (ably assisted by Mr. Strong and Mr. 
>Vine, of
>course!!).
>
>After you take 1 year of Greek, you get online with 
>B-Greek and start
>tossing out questions and making statements - many of 
>which you look
>back upon in embarrassment and wish you could somehow 
>delete from the
>archives.
>
>After you've had 2 years of Greek and have spent more 
>time reading the
>text of the New Testament, you realize HOW LITTLE you 
>actually know and
>how complicated and idiomatic language is, and the 
>statements you make
>are much less dogmatic. And you appreciate the knowledge 
>of those who
>are many years more advanced than you.
>
>There is a fascinating (to me) essay by Moises Silva in 
>the new book THE
>CHALLENGE OF BIBLE TRANSLATION.
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0310246857/qid=1063588673/
>sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-1131246-0283261?v=glance&s=books
>
>Silva is no slouch when it comes to Bible translation and 
>is somewhat of
>an authority of linguistics, I believe, but he recalls 
>(if I remember
>the essay correctly - the book is a collection of essays 
>in honor of
>Ronald F. Youngblood) how he was translating something 
>from Spanish (his
>native language) into English and noted how difficult it 
>was for him -
>because his intimate familiarity with the language as a 
>living language
>he spoke and knew and lived with caused him to understand 
>nuances of
>thought and speech, and subtle implications, etc., that 
>made him
>struggle with how best to convey all the Spanish said or 
>implied into
>another language. And what startled him was comparing 
>this with the
>relative ease with which he could translate Biblical 
>texts into English
>- which made him wonder if he really did understand 
>Biblical Greek as
>well as he thought he did.
>
>- - -
>Eric S. Weiss
>eweiss at gte.net



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