[B-Greek] Koine/English
Kevin Riley
klriley at alphalink.com.au
Wed Jan 10 17:15:24 EST 2007
I would certainly not consider myself on of the "great minds of this board",
but will risk an answer anyway. Either the person writing the message has a
very good knowledge of Greek and has forgotten any difficulties he faced -
as would be true of someone who had a very good command of classical Greek
before starting on Koiné - or else his comment brings his knowledge of
Biblical Greek into question.
Kevin Riley
-------Original Message-------
From: Edward Andrews
Date: 11/01/2007 8:07:16 AM
To all:
I would like to post the following comment to the great minds of this board,
sucking up was intended. Please give me a response to a comment that was
posted to me yesterday. I thank all of you very much in advance. He starts:
Dear Edward:
"Your arguments bring your knowledge of Biblical Greek into question. I'm
sure that you are aware that the writers of the New Testament wrote in Greek
because they wanted the whole world to understand their message. So the
Greek they used is not at all complicated, for if it was it would obscure
the message.
Instead it is simple, straightforward and relatively easy for us to learn
and understand.
All the basic grammar one needs to get a working knowledge of New Testament
Greek is, in fact, already used in English.
Grammar is concerned with the way in which a language is structured. Words
are the individual building blocks, and grammar simply describes the way
they are put together as speech or writing.
The English language is part of the same Indo-European family of languages
as Greek and has directly inherited many of its characteristics.
The words themselves are different, but the way they are put together isn't.
All the grammatical terms we use in English - nouns and verbs, subjects and
objects, adjectives, tenses and the like are just the same in Greek as in
English."
Again, thanks to those who have time to offer a comment or two. Note: if
this is an inappropriate question, outside of the rules, please ignore
Edward Andrews
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