[B-Greek] beginner

cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jul 30 20:50:41 EDT 2004


At 3:28 PM -0700 7/30/04, ricelm Elmore wrote:
>is this site for beginners or Professional , I have been on it for awhile 
>and I am just wondering?

Our FAQ (which you need to read at http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.txt--note
also there that we expect all messages to be subscribed by a full-name
signature.) says:
"B-GREEK is a mailing list for scholars and students of
Biblical Greek. Our main focus is upon understanding the Greek text of the
Bible. Discussion topics include scholarly study of the Greek Bible and
related Jewish and Christian Greek texts, tools for beginning and advanced
students of
Biblical Greek such as textbooks, reference works, bibliography and
research tools, and linguistic topics such as morphology, lexicography,
syntax,and discourse analysis. B-Greek was established in 1992 by David
Marotta at the Center for Christian Study, an independent Christian
ministry at the University of Virginia. In 1998 the list changed its venue
to ibiblio at UNC-Chapel Hill after David asked to step down as list owner.
We are grateful to David for his vision of a forum where the Greek text and
language of the Bible are probed in ongoing conversation by an eclectic
group of beginning students and veteran teachers, lay persons and clergy,
conservatives and liberals, earnest inquirers and academic scholars
--equally committed to probing the Biblical text in the original Koine, and
jointly exploring the mysteries and probabilities of Biblical Greek
morphology and syntax

"Anyone interested in New Testament Studies is invited to subscribe, but
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meaning of the English text. Even basic questions are welcome, provided
they are really about the meaning of the Greek text. This is not a general
discussion list for Biblical matters. While one need not be a Greek scholar
to subscribe, one should at least be taking the first serious steps in the
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We deal with a variety of questions about Biblical Greek or the Biblical Greek
text, ranging from the simplest items of noun declension or verb conjugation to
relatively arcane matters of lexicography and idiom, but certainly we are always
open to questions from beginners in Greek.

Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/



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