[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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