[B-Greek] Mounce's Phrasing

Brion Brooks BrooksBJ at GMNP.net
Wed Jun 16 10:57:28 EDT 2004


I'm only about a year ahead of you, so I'll give you a perspective from
a small berm, rather than a mountain top. And a caveat: this answer is
related to my use of phrasing for sermon preparation, not purely
academic study.  

That said, I'm a fan of phrasing for the reasons Mounce talks about in
the Reader (and Fee talks about in his "NT Exegesis"). Often times I'll
find my thoughts about the passage change as I go through the process.
Word and phrase repitions appear that I had not seen earlier. Also, it
helps me embed the passage into my mind much more than simply
translating it. There's nothing magical about it, though. In the end, it
just usually works out that the more time you spend tinkering with a
passage (phrasing or doing something else with it), the more you get out
of it. 
 
Personally, I've found phrasing to be more helpful for the
epistles/letters than for the narratives/gospels, but I still use it on
both. 

Your question about "using time efficiently" and "how to perform"
phrasing makes me think you may be the kind of person who gets hung up
on "doing it just right." If you refuse to become anal retentive about
phrasing, it really does not take much time to learn or do. Its mostly
just common sense, really. After you've done a couple passages, it only
takes, say, a half hour to an hour (I've not timed myself -- just
guessing) to phrase a passage of ten verses or so on the word processor
(assuming you've already translated it). For me, its time well spent;
however, you may define 'efficient' differently than me. 

Anyway, that's my take on it. 

Brion Brooks  

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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Robert F Schut
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Subject: [B-Greek] Mounce's Phrasing

I have just completed Mounce's BBG, including his workbook and am now
starting "A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek."

I am trying to utilize my time as efficiently as possible.  How much
time should I spend learning how to perform "Phrasing?" 

Is it an effective tool for translating, or am I better off investing
the time elsewhere (vocabulary drills, Wallace's GGBB)?

 

Bob

 

Robert Schut  (rschut at att.net)

Sacramento, CA

 

 

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