[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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