[B-Greek] Why Learn Greek?

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Mon Aug 15 07:27:45 EDT 2005


Eric Sowell has a post of some interest on his blog, "The Coding  
Humanist" (http://thecodinghumanist.blogspot.com/) dated Sunday,  
August 14 with the heading: "Why Learn Greek." Eric is beginning to  
teach a Beginning Greek course at his church and has apparently been  
pondering that question. It is one that we've discussed again and  
again over the years in this our forum, probably not yet for the last  
time. I'm not trying to start a new thread so much as to call  
attention to what strikes me as a pretty judicious accounting of what  
abilities of the student of Biblical Greek learning Greek should and  
should not be expected to enhance -- sort of along the lines of "a  
little Greek can be a dangerous thing" but it can deepen the  
sensitivity to nuances of the Greek text.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
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