[B-Greek] How did the Greeks Read Greek?

Clayton Javurek javurek at asu.edu
Mon Aug 23 10:51:17 EDT 2004



Clayton Javurek
E-Mail:javurek at asu.edu

Dear b-greek listers:

Currently I am reading through the book of Hebrews in the NT with the
help of the Greek-English Interlinear. The Greek word order in the book
of Hebrews is very difficult. How did the Greeks in the first century AD
read Greek? By this
I mean to ask "Did the Greeks look at each sentence like a scattered
puzzle
and they first had to identify the parts and then fit them together" or
"Did
the Greeks, somehow in moving from left to right, were still able to use
Greek word order
somehow to read Greek"? I just find that the Greek word order in the
book
of Hebrews appears so crazy that it would seem so difficult even for a
Greek native speaker to read the book of Hebrews!

Thanks for any insight you can offer.





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