[B-Greek] "Sunday School Greek"

Bert de Haan b_dehaan at sympatico.ca
Tue Jan 23 16:05:03 EST 2007


Reading the comment that some of the past arguments sounds elitist, made me 
think about someone  being a mechanic after a highshool elective in 
automechanics but George in his usual -to- the -point- way of speaking makes 
it much clearer with his Sunday School Brian Surgeon analogy.
I probably know enough Greek to do some serious damage to a patient with a 
Greek related brain problem  but I have notice that at times I can pick out 
a fallacy after reading or hearing a  -the-Greek-actually-says-  type of 
argument.  I  makes me think; "It does NOT acually say that"  but I am not 
sure enough of myself to say this out loud.
There is some benefit in knowing a little Greek as long as there is 
awareness that it is only a little.

Bert de Haan.

 >From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "Sunday School Greek"
>To: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck at gmail.com>,	"Carl W. Conrad"
>	<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>Cc: suzanne mccarthy <suzmccarth at yahoo.com>,	B-Greek B-Greek
>	<b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
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>It's only elitist if you also consider the idea feasible that the average 
>person can become a "Sunday School Brain Surgeon."
>
>george
>gfsomsel
>_________
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>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: David Opderbeck <dopderbeck at gmail.com>
>To: Carl W. Conrad <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
>Cc: suzanne mccarthy <suzmccarth at yahoo.com>; B-Greek B-Greek 
><b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 11:40:18 AM
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "Sunday School Greek"
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>Again from my lay person's perspective -- some of what I'm hearing here
>sounds elitist.  It kind of sounds like the debates centuries ago about
>whether the laity should have access to scripture in the venacular.
>
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