[B-Greek] interlinears for beginners

Clayton Javurek javurek at asu.edu
Tue Apr 19 12:26:56 EDT 2005



Clayton Javurek
E-Mail:javurek at asu.edu

"A HALF Loaf of bread is better than NO bread at all."- Lou Saban,
former coach of the Denver Broncos in 1971.

That is why I say YES to Interlinears!


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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Peter Hamm
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 9:23 AM
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Subject: RE: [B-Greek] interlinears for beginners


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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