[B-Greek] the Knowledge of Ancient Greek

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Mon Feb 20 19:21:03 EST 2006


>Hi friends,
I have a rather simple question on the history of ancient greek. How do 
modern scholars "know" today that the grammar rules that we hold to for 
koine greek are the correct ones? This might sound like a foolish question, 
but did they discover ancient greek grammar papyrii for children?? Or.. 
what? Did they simply decipher the greek rules from looking at thousands of 
manuscripts?
Hehe.. thanks for answering my silly question. Just curious I suppose.. God 
bless you!
Seth>

 

Answer: Both. We have ancient Greek writings by greeks about their own
language and we have millions of words of the language in context. Not to
mention translation into other languages.

 

However, [*!*] not knowing what rules you or anyone might hold to, and
knowing that there are differences in the way people would describe any
language, then my comment above may not apply at all.

 

Blessings

Randall Buth

 

 

Randall Buth, PhD

Director, Biblical Language Center

www.BiblicalUlpan.org

buth at jerusalemschool.org

and Lecturer, Biblical Hebrew

Rothberg, Hebrew University

ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il

 




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