[B-Greek] Lining Out a Greek Text

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Tue May 29 11:35:34 EDT 2007


Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> On May 25, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Randall Buth wrote:
>
>   
>>> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Lining Out a Greek Text
>>> http://ibiblio.org/koine/greek/liningout/liningout.html
>>>       
> I like this scheme because it involves fundamentally a process of  
> reading the Greek text NATURALLY -- in the sequence in which the words and
> phrases are penned and heard. It is the very opposite of what -- in my
> decades of experience of students tackling the reading of lengthy  
> passages of Greek or Latin -- is the all-too-common standard practice: hunting  
> the subjects and verbs and then trying to fit the other items in clauses  
> together after that. This is a method which, if pursued consistently and  
> conscientiously, should lead to proficiency and to the obviation of the need even for  
> "lining out."
>   

Carl's guidance was extremely helpful in figuring this out.  And I'm 
already finding that it makes it easier for me to look at a text and 
grasp it without physically lining it out, though I do imagine how I 
would line it out as I read.

Jonathan



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