[B-Greek] One way of describing NT Koine

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jul 17 08:22:32 EDT 2007


 From the Old Curmudgeon (Laudator Temporis Acti) yesterday (http:// 
tinyurl.com/3cheeu)
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In Robinson Davies' novel The Rebel Angel (Penguin Books, 1983), a  
Greek professor named Simon Darcourt describes New Testament Greek  
thus (p. 46):

     "A splendid ruin, like a Greek statue with nose knocked off,  
arms gone, privy parts lost, but still Greek, splendid in decay, and  
capable of saying mighty things."
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Rather nice, that.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)





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