[B-Greek] What NT Bible do you recommend for a newcomer?

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Fri May 12 16:37:13 EDT 2006



Clayton Javurek wrote:

> Many Greek scholars on this list
> falsely assume that if one wants to read Greek, then that person will
> automatically sit down
> do all the grinding grunt work...that is NOT TRUE! I can only offer you
> the easy way which to the
> scholars is no way at all, but remember, a half loaf of bread is better
> than no bread at all.

The easy way is not the best way.  And mouldy bread with rancid butter 
is not only bad, its bad for you.  And in scholarship and learning, 
interlinears are mouldy bread and rancid butter.

> 
> If your son is truly disciplined and dedicated to memorize all
> those vocabulary words and all those word morphemes, then you need to
> buy him 3 things:

snip-  he will need those things mentioned in the long run so go ahead 
and get them now.  Book prices aren't going down!

If he is not willing to grind it out, but he still wants to
> know something,
> then just buy him a Greek English Interlinear.

If he's not willing to learn Greek the right way, he really shouldn't 
learn it at all.  The only benefit of an interlinear is to allow its 
user the false belief that he or she really knows something when in fact 
they do not.

Learning that takes shortcuts is not learning at all.

Best

Jim

-- 
Jim West, ThD

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