[B-Greek] (Poss. OT) A GNT translation group by email is starting
Paul E.Baronowsky
pbaronow at insightbb.com
Mon Sep 26 21:54:50 EDT 2005
B-Greek members,
On August 24, 2005, at the end of a message to the B-Greek email list
concerning a new Koine Greek study group that is using Machen's NTG
for Beginners, I added the following postscript:
"PS: I also want to start a GNT Translation group on
greekstudy at nxport.com. Anyone interested in translating the Greek New
Testament, please respond as suggested above. Please do not respond to
the B-Greek email list."
Both the Machen study group and the GNT translation group got under
way last week.
Anyone who is interested is invited to join either of these groups.
The next assignment for the Machen study group, tagged [MACH2005], is
Lesson 3, Exercise 2 (English-to-Greek), due Thursday evening,
September 29. Future assignments will be due each Thursday evening at
a pace of two weeks per Lesson: Exercise 1 (Greek-to-English) one week
and Exercise 2 (English-to-Greek) the next.
The next assignment for the GNT translation group, tagged [GNT], is
vv. 15-19 of Paul's letter to Philemon, due Monday evening, October
03. The "official" text is NA-26 or later or UBS 4.
The [GNT] group presupposes a participant has completed either
Mounce's BBG or Machen's NTG for Beginners, or the equivalent.
Paul's letter to Philemon was divided into four parts, with 7, 7, 5,
and 6 verses per part. Thus, it is a rather slowly progressing group
intended for those just getting started with translation of continuous
passages. Discussion on the greekstudy email list is encouraged. We
will soon be discussing 1) the pace of the assignments; and 2) what to
tackle next. I am considering either John's Epistles or Mark's Gospel.
But the group itself will decide. We just "stuck our collective toe in
the water" with Paul's short letter to Philemon.
If anyone is interested in joining either group, please email me for
more information at the address given in my signature below (which is
different from my address in the header of this message). Please start
your subject line with [MACH2005] or [GNT] as appropriate.
To subscribe to the greekstudy email list, go to:
http://nxport.com/mailman/listinfo/greekstudy
Please note: Except for the cost of any text that is needed, the
various languagestudy groups at nxport.com are free and open to anyone
who is interested. The groups are frequently monitored by members who
are more proficient in the language and who offer help when asked (out
of the goodness of their hearts, Bless them!).
Participants send their assignments to a coordinator (that's me, in
the case of [MACH2005] and [GNT]), who prepares a collation of
everyones' submissions and posts the collation to the greekstudy list.
(Thanks to Kirk Lougheed, who wrote the very efficient collation
script. Bless him!) In that way, each participant can compare his/her
own work with everyone else's.
If any B-Greek member belongs to another email list, whose members
might be interested in either of these groups, I would be very happy
if you would copy this message to that list, if that is permitted.
Thank you for allowing me to post this message on B-Greek.
Paul E. Baronowsky
Lafayette, Indiana
abaronow at insightbb.com
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