[B-Greek] Etymology and "Knowing Greek"
kbent at comeoverandhelpus.com
kbent at comeoverandhelpus.com
Tue Oct 3 14:58:46 EDT 2006
In reading your discussions, I was reminded again of D.A. Carson's
chapter on Word Study Fallacies in his book "Exegetical Fallacies"
(Baker Academic), which includes some excellent and glaring examples of
"The Root Fallacy" and "Semantic Anachronism."
Kenneth Bent
Silsbee, TX
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 11:35:37 -0400
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
Subject: [B-Greek] F.F. Bruce on "knowing Greek"
To: B-Greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: suzanne mccarthy <suzmccarth at yahoo.com>
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Suzanne McCarthy calls attention in a blog posting this morning on
"Better Bibles Blog" to an older blog post of her own of last April :
http://powerscourt.blogspot.com/2006/04/william-kelly.html
The item of particular interest here is a passage cited from the memoirs
of F.F. Bruce, from which I cite only one sentence about "knowing Greek"
that comes close to something I've often expressed here
myself:
"I have met students who claimed to ?know Greek? on the basis of their
acquaintance with the Greek New Testament; even if that latter
acquaintance were exhaustive, it would no more amount to a knowledge of
Greek than acquaintance with the English New Testament would amount to a
knowledge of English."
The fuller citation is well worth looking at; indeed, I'm now tempted to
look up the memoir with its Proustian title, "In
Retrospect: Remembrance of Things Past"
(Amazon.com: http://tinyurl.com/jj4od)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/>>
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