[B-Greek] Review of vocab

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Tue Oct 5 11:14:39 EDT 2004


Carl Conrad wrote:
Two observations, both of which I've aired here previously:
(1) The most trouble I ever had with vocabulary was when plowing (almost
literally through 12 books each of Homeric Iliad and Odyssey in one month
while a grad student; my not-very-sophisticated-but-nonetheless-successful
method of getting over this hurdle was to keep a notebook listing every
unrecognized Greek word and meaning in context as I came to it--I found
that I had 10-15 pages of vocabulary notes on Iliad 1, about 10 on Iliad 2,
and that it got down to about 3 pages on Iliad 3 and successively fewer.

A resource I have used with students translating the GNT is Sakae Kubo, A Readers Lexicon of the GNT. This book came out when I was teaching Greek as a Th.D. student at N.O. Seminary. An eager student ran up to me as I entered the cafeteria and asked, "Do you have Kubo?" I replied, "No, I think I am walking this way because of Lumbago."

Kubo list bdy chapter and verse every word that occurs 50 times or less in the NT. He also gives special vocabulary (often used vocabulary in each book) at the beginning of each book.

An older work by a man named Morrison (as I recall) did much the same thing, but listed the vocabulary in the Synoptics from the pericopes in Huck-Leitzmann Synopsis.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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