[B-Greek] List of GNT Books

Hugh Donohoe Jr. justusjcmylord at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 2 20:14:21 EST 2008


Jim, 

Congratulations on the vocabulary milestones. Forums
like this will help you not to become complacent. 

Thinking on your question made me think of a question
I wanted to ask of the list members. I am traveling
and only have a few books with me, so I will have to
go from memory in asking my question. In Daniel
Wallace's big book on syntax, in the introduction, he
lumps the books of the NT into three categories. I
will list the three as I remember them with a couple
of examples. Vulgar (Mark, Revelation), Conversational
(Matthew, Pauline letters), Literary (Acts, Hebrews, 1
Peter). I was wondering what list members thought of
these categories? I thought of these categories
because they affect how I think of the canon in terms
of difficulty of translation. Thanks.

ex animo

Hugh J. Donohoe Jr.

Jim wrote:

Hi all, I'm working my way for the 1st time through 1
John, reading in  Greek 
and translating on the spot, IT IS FUN! I know you all
kept telling me to  
read, read, read. But I didn't know enough. Mounce
said when you know the 325  
words he gives, you'll know 4 out of 5 words, but it
never seemed that way. 
When  I got another 325 words down (20 and above
frequency( that when I really  
knew 8 to 9 out of most words I came across, that was
the breakthrough. I'm  up 
to 700 words in vocab now, and started Steven Baugh's
1 John reader to  help 
me, I'm also using Martin Curl's handbook to help. I
start 1 John chapter 2  
today. What a joy this is, and you REALLY do get more
understanding, by just by 
 reading it, of what the sentences mean, perfect,
continual, aorist & so on.  
My question is what is the list from the easier to the
more harder books to  
read in the NT, and be able to translate on the spot?
Also, is there a list 
like  this for the Septuagint, or at least a place to
start?
I can't wait to get more & more down. I must say, this
is  about the hardest 
thing I've ever done before, I spend at least an hour
a day or  2 doing my 
homework and now translating, but well worth it. I'm
going to try to  get down to 
1100 words in my vocab 10 and above frequency, Lord
willing.
I only went to the 8th grade in formal schooling. 
To God be the glory for renewing my mind. 
This list is a great blessing, thank you all. 
 
Grace and  peace
Jim Montesano



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