[B-Greek] The Complete Wordstudy New Testament With Greek Para

Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Apr 19 06:54:09 EDT 2005


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> On 4/18/05 9:24 PM, "Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>> There is no such thing as a good interlinear.
>
> Oh, then you don't use and e-text of the GNT hyperlinked to lexicons and
> parsing data? That is a working definition of "a good interlinear".

The normal definition of an interlinearis a line by line (literally "between the 
lines") rendering of the text, one line of the source language, with a word by 
word reference in the receptor language below.  As for a good e-text, it is 
handy to have something linked to a good lexicon and other tools, but one's 
mastery of the language should be such that to look at a Greek verb is to parse 
it.  The less one has to rely on lexicons, the better as well.

And the only way to do this is... to read copious amounts of Greek.

> I was told by someone who attends SBL that a world class NT linguist, widely
> published, a name known to all the SIL and UBS people, appeared at an SBL
> session several years ago with an interlinear GNT in his hand. Can anyone
> explain this?

He needed a paperweight?  Seriously, I don't know why such an individual would 
want to carry such a text, if it really was an interlinear.  But an anecdote 
such as this proves nothing...

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
         Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cuts.edu
Visiting Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
         Washington, D.C.
http://www.rts.edu/campuses/washington_dc/index.cfm

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