[B-Greek] the Knowledge of Ancient Greek

Terry and Gail Cook cookie99 at fuse.net
Tue Feb 21 17:35:42 EST 2006


Dr Buth wrote, "We have ancient Greek writings by greeks about their own
language...". Would you kindly point us in the direction of such writings?
Terry Cook
sDg





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "R Yochanan Bitan Buth" <ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 7:21 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] the Knowledge of Ancient Greek


> >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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