[B-Greek] Mark 3:13-19 Translation Issues
Dan Gleason
dan-bgreek at hotmail.com
Tue Nov 15 16:28:28 EST 2005
Dear Mike
MS wrote:
If you can't convey in plain
>English what you think the original Greek says, then you don't
>understand what the original says.
DG: Where did you get the idea that Mark ever speaks in "plain Greek?"
That may just be a false assumption.
Dan Gleason
PS to Mike: I think I sent this to you off-list but it was meant for the
list
>From: Mike Sangrey <MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org>
>To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Mark 3:13-19 Translation Issues
>Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:07:46 -0500
>
>May I just say (and then not deal again with the issue that Dan's
>postings bring up):
>
>One of the fundamental rules I follow in exegesis (ie. understanding
>what the original text says) is this: If you can't convey in plain
>English what you think the original Greek says, then you don't
>understand what the original says.
>
>If we can't convey the meaning in the language we are fluent in, then
>either we are not fluent in the language we think we're fluent in, or we
>don't understand the meaning we want to convey, or the meaning we want
>to convey doesn't make sense to begin with.
>
>--
>Mike Sangrey (msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org)
>Exegetitor.blogspot.com
>Landisburg, Pa.
> "The first one last wins."
> "A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
>
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