[B-Greek] interlinears for beginners

N.E. Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Tue Apr 19 11:31:11 EDT 2005


>From: James Bowick <bowick at idirect.com>
>Date: Tue Apr 19 10:20:22 CDT 2005
>To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: RE: [B-Greek] interlinears for beginners

>Let me go against the crowd.
>
>One of the great challenges I see facing the church as a whole is a marked decrees in understanding the Bible.  I work with a lot of pastors and most of them have only a smattering of Greek if they have any at all.  While I would love to see them all continue in the study of Greek so they are no longer dependant on interlinears, parsing guides and handy dictionaries, the reality is that this is just not going to happen for most of them.  I will put an interlinear or any other tool I can into their hands to help them get further into Greek.   They are going to make mistakes, and misunderstand things, but at least they will be trying.  I have watched the discussion on this list long enough to know that even the best of us get it wrong from time to time.<<

Interlinears make the problem worse, by creating the appearance and false assurance of knowledge without the reality thereof.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, CUTS
http://www.cuts.edu
bhofstetter at cuts.edu




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