[B-Greek] interlinears for beginners
Peter Hamm
peter at hamm-multimedia.com
Tue Apr 19 12:23:25 EDT 2005
So many opinions on Interlinears... As a beginner myself who is just
finishing up the Indicative section in Mounce's book, I have to say how
THRILLED I am that I did NOT bother buying an interlinear. After I knew
enough greek to parse all the nouns, I looked at marshall's Interlinear in a
bookstore and quickly concluded that if I bought it, it would hurt in my
learning of the languages. I might be able to do word studies great, but
word studies, in and of themselves, are dangerously inaccurate, I think, in
interpreting from the original tongue. (the old DUNAMIS=dynamite fallacy
comes to mind.)
I got the Zondervan Reader's Greek New Testament, which is inadequate
compared with a UBS or NA, but is still useful for vocabulary acquisition,
and the NET-GNT diglot, which I prefer to carry when I can.
I concur, In my own very limited way, with the scholars on this list who
believe that the interlinears are, for lack of a better word... Evil.
A little knowledge is not necessarily dangerous, but a little PRIDE is very
dangerous...
Peter Hamm
Greek Newbie and all-around good guy from Centreville, Virginia
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