[B-Greek] interlinears for beginners

Jeff Cockrell jeffcockrell at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 19 11:49:59 EDT 2005


I concur.  An interlinear may be a crutch, but for some it is a crutch that 
helps one get closer to walking without any or few aides.

Jeff Cockrell

>From: "N.E. Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net>
>To: James Bowick <bowick at idirect.com>, b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: Re: RE: [B-Greek] interlinears for beginners
>Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 10:31:11 -0500 (CDT)
>
> >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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