[B-Greek] The best starting place?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Aug 26 18:33:35 EDT 2006


Obviously you feel that Hip Hop is a degraded form of English or you would not object to its being compared to Koine (I happen to think that it is degraded as well).  You can keep E. E. Cummings and his cow too so far as I'm concerned.
   
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Curtis Hinson <curtis at curtishinson.com> wrote:
  I do object to the suggestion Koine is to older Greek as Hip-Hop is to 
English. Would you say the same about German and Yiddish?

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The language of the New Testament and the LXX is not some sort of 
degraded descendant of classical Greek. It's it's own language: 
Judeo-Greek, and understanding Moses and Abraham are a better starting 
place than Homer. I think it's ill-thought to dismiss the Jewish Greek 
because it's authors think and function differently than Homer.

Do we say E.E. Cummings is less of a poet, or Langston Hughes, because 
they don't have the same meter or vocabulary of Shakespeare? Do we have 
to understand Shakespeare to understand Langston Hughes? In fact if we 
view Langston Hughes through the lense of why he's not Shakespeare, 
might we not miss the unique genius that was Langston Hughes?

The literature of the New Testament has a beauty and subtlety all it's 
own. For that matter, Hip-Hop has a beauty and subtlety all it's own.

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
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http://curtishinson.com


Elizabeth Kline wrote the following on 8/25/2006 7:35 PM:
> I started with Koine and after then Homer and then Attic but would 
> not recommend that sequence. Learning Koine first is like learning 
> English by listening to Hip Hop.
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