[B-Greek] One-year GNT reading plan

Justin Buol vonbuol at gmail.com
Mon Sep 12 15:40:20 EDT 2005


There is another site that has a plan for reading the Greek New Testament in 
one year. I have not used it so I cannot comment on its organization. Here 
is the site:

http://www.btinternet.com/~MisPar/GNotes/index.htm

Justin


On 9/12/05, Randy Leedy <Rleedy at bju.edu> wrote:
> 
> I am exploring the possibility of putting together a plan to read through 
> the Greek NT in a year. It's easy enough to generate a list of roughly 
> equal-length passages: the 138,019 words of the UBS/NA text divided by 365 
> days is about 378 words per day. A MS Word macro can easily be written to 
> move the cursor forward 378 words in an unaccented text. Or one could also 
> use page counts in a text without apparatus (i.e., a text with 
> approximately the same amount of Scripture text on each page). So laying out 
> 365 passages of approximately equal length is a relatively trivial task.
> 
> If one wishes to factor in the difficulty so that easier passages are 
> longer and harder passages are shorter, aiming for evenness not in word 
> counts but in reading time, the matter becomes cloudy, especially given the 
> subjectivity involved in assessing difficulty. Still, I'm thinking that it 
> may be worth a try. What I currently envision is laying out 365 passages of 
> as equal length as possible consistent with maintaining attractive break 
> points (at paragraphs wherever possible and never within a sentence). Then I 
> would enlist a number of readers willing to read as much as possible within 
> a year and, in a standard form (preferably in an Excel file that I would 
> supply) report back their assessments of difficulty on a scale of 1-5, where 
> 3 is the default, and 1-2 are assigned for easier passages and 4-5 for more 
> difficult ones. I would compile these numbers and assign each passage an 
> average difficulty factor on which I would then base adjustments to the 
> length of the daily pass
> ages. The result would be a reading schedule that would hopefully turn out 
> to be maintainable within a fairly predictable amount of time each day. One 
> could also gauge his progress by the speed with which he is able to complete 
> daily readings, which would hopefully decrease over time. But then some 
> readers will maintain a slower pace but will find themselves understanding 
> better with time, which of course is progress but not in an easily 
> measurable form.
> 
> Anyway, before I and others invest effort in this scheme, I thought I 
> would inquire whether anyone is already aware of such a reading schedule 
> extant. I did a Google search for "read 'Greek New Testament' year" and did 
> not find any hits on the first page of results.
> 
> Thanks for any help. If I end up doing this, I may return to the list 
> before long, offering the provisional schedule and soliciting readers.
> 
> I see the list only in digest form, and my email reader sometimes clips 
> off the end of the digests, so please CC me on any replies.
> 
> Blessings in Christ! (Acts 3:26),
> 
> Randy Leedy
> Bob Jones University Seminary
> Greenville, SC
> RLeedy at bju.edu
> 
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Justin Buol
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