[B-Greek] The Reader's GNT

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 17 11:40:38 EDT 2004


I, too, have thought that the RGNT, despite its flaws, may actually be useful for a 
1st-year Greek student's GNT -- except they have to take 1 year of Greek FIRST, and 
learn a few hundred more words than Mounce teaches, before they are equipped to use 
it. And, at that point, they might be more ready for UBS4, which hopefully they've already 
dipped into during 1st-year Greek as you've exposed them to textual variants, differences 
between the indicative and the subjunctive (using the Romans 5:1 variant as a significant 
example), etc. It's not a clear-cut winner, imo.
 
As for the "string bookmark":
 
- I took a piece of long, thin ribbon fabric
- cut it to measure several inches longer than twice-the-height of my Zerwick-Grosvenor 
Grammatical Analysis handbook
- slid it down inside the spine in the gap between the cover and the bound pages (you 
should be able to do the same with the RGNT) so a length equal to the book's height 
was now hanging below it
- put an all-purpose glue on the length sticking out below the book 
- pulled the ribbon back up through the spine/pages gap until the gluey part had reached 
the top of the book (i.e., I now had a gluey ribbon the full length of the book in between 
the spine and the pages)
- closed the book
- let it sit a day for the glue to dry, with some pressure on the spine (e.g., squeeze it 
between some books on a bookshelf; put some books against the back and on top)
 
and voila! - I have a Zerwick-Grosvenor with a ribbon page marker! 



Eric S. Weiss
http://www.geocities.com/papaweiss1/index.htm


		
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