[B-Greek] Proficiency Guidelines/just for the joy of it

Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com
Sun Feb 13 21:19:59 EST 2005


In a message dated 2/13/2005 5:48:01 PM Central Standard Time, 
TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com writes:


> Yeah, but if you are reading the Septuagint just because it is FUN, who 
> cares if your understanding is erroneous!

Kat, and Barry,

Did I say I was reading the Septuagint just because it is fun?  Well, I am, 
and I care if my understanding is erroneous.  I am held to a higher 
accountability then you can imagine.  Whatever my understanding it must agree with all 
before me.  I have a goal, to make myself a loose leaf Greek/English interlinear 
and to compile a Septuagint lexicon.  But I think there can be fun as well as 
moments of seriousness.  Sometimes it like climbing the world's highest 
mountain and I am the only one up there.  

There is another reason for studying the Septuagint.  I had a stroke in '00, 
and almost lost my sight to hemorrhages.  There was no residuals except my 
eyes.  I could look at a word and not know what it meant.  So, studying OT Greek 
has been therapeutic.  Now, instead of reading one word at a time and can read 
sentences like before the stroke.  

I haven't seen Dobson's book, I haven't seen him in years.  

Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX



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