[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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