[B-Greek] Beginners on B-Greek? (was "Re: Mark 5:7")

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Sun Oct 30 17:41:41 EST 2005


On Oct 30, 2005, at 5:23 PM, Anna Maria Henriksen wrote:

> are there some "beginners " here? And if so, do we have any common
> discussion ground? I just started NT koine greek in august and want  
> to know
> if there are some use for me to be at this list.
> I need most of all to get the grip on the diffrent verb stuff  
> (Aorist, ect.)
> beside of usefull tips and translations.
>
> Laila Henriksen

by all means there are beginners here; indeed there are students at  
every imaginable level of learning Biblical Greek; some, like myself,  
have been at it for more than fifty years, while others have just now  
started working with a primer.

You are welcome to B-Greek. If you'll look at the FAQ (which you  
should surely do (at http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/faq.txt), you'll  
note what our invitation actually asserts:

"Anyone interested in New Testament Studies is invited to subscribe, but
list-members will be assumed to have at least a working knowledge of
Biblical Greek. While "lurkers" are welcome to receive and read list
correspondence, posts to the list are expected to pose questions about
Biblical Greek, not general questions or opinions about doctrine or the
meaning of the English text. Even basic questions are welcome, provided
they are really about the meaning of the Greek text. This is not a  
general
discussion list for Biblical matters. While one need not be a Greek  
scholar
to subscribe, one should at least be taking the first serious steps  
in the
study of Biblical Greek."

Most recently we have had more than one lengthy thread on right  
pronunciation (lengthy because there is no solid consensus!), threads  
on different forms of first-declension nouns, questions on verb- 
forms, etc., etc. It is in fact true that list-correspondence may  
range from very simple questions about very elementary matters of  
grammar to complex discussions of lexicology and syntax in complex  
Biblical Greek texts.

Welcome aboard, and do feel free to post questions that arise in your  
initial stages of Greek study.

Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/




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