[B-Greek] my AREIOS POTHR arrived

Joseph Weaks j.weaks at tcu.edu
Wed Nov 3 13:26:28 EST 2004


On Nov 3, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Patrick Narkinsky wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2004, at 10:52 AM, Joseph Weaks wrote:
>
>> That's great, although it really is a shame that the commercial 
>> forces worked so well for this book as opposed to others. I've read 
>> them all, and they really aren't very stellar as far as literature is 
>> concerned. I can think of quite a few fantasy/epic novels that would 
>> make a better candidate for this type of exercise. (Tolkien?, 
>> LeGuin?)
>
> Perhaps.  But somehow, I don't think my (almost 7-year-old) son would 
> want to learn Greek to read LeGuin. However, as soon as he saw hAREIOS 
> POTHR, he got after me to start teaching him Greek.

Patrick,
With inspiring a child to read Greek or Latin as the goal, yes, you are 
right. Although, I still say it's a shame that our children have been 
commercialized to think that HP is what they should want to be reading. 
There are better stories for a 7-year old. But, I know how it is with a 
parent; we go with the flow. I must say, some of the HP material is 
questionable for a 7 year old. I can imagine Lewis' Chronicles of 
Narnia making good Latin or Greek.
My only "backwards translation" projects have been things like modern 
church documents, and that was strictly Koinh, so who knows.

Joe

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Rev. Joseph A. Weaks
Senior Minister, Bethany Christian Church, Dallas
Ph.D. (Cand.), Brite Divinity School, Ft. Worth
j.weaks at tcu.edu
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