[B-Greek] Further Study
Jeffrey T. Requadt
jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Wed Apr 8 00:32:38 EDT 2009
For the record [as if the "record" cared], I absolutely love it when Randall
Buth asks someone to do this [actually think in Greek]. To me (and I can
never do it, either), this illustrates very poignantly the difference
between treating NT Greek as some kind of magic code (which is what the vast
vast vast majority of our seminaries and Bible colleges do, unwittingly),
and as an authentic language in which the early Christians breathed and
moved and had their being (in addition to any other languages they may have
known). In case you've never heard me make analogies to education before,
it's like the difference between kids learning to read by reading and having
texts read to them, and being taught that reading is "sounding out" words.
What's the point of reading anything--the NT in English or Greek, a
blueprint, a menu, a letter, or Fox in Socks--if you're not understanding it
as quickly and as completely as possible? We don't read the English Bible
(or any other English text) by parsing everything and figuring out how all
the pieces fit into the puzzle. Why should that be the goal of reading a
Greek text--namely, the Greek Bible?
Keep up the good work! Maybe someday I can immerse myself in Greek--and
Hebrew!. Someday. Someday.
Jeffrey T. Requadt
Tucson, AZ
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Randall Buth
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:38 AM
To: B Greek; Charles Johnson
Subject: [B-Greek] Further Study
>I am looking for recommendations for further study
resources/programs/readings. I am a seminarian who has completed about 27
credit hours of Biblical Greek. I am comfortable reading in almost all of
the NT (Hebrews is still hard) and have a grammatical understanding at about
the level of Wallace's *Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics*. I am particularly
interested in resources that will help me apprehend the grammar more
precisely.
Thanks for all the wisdom,
Charlie Johnson>
It is important to discovrer what one doesn't know so that it gets filled
in.
Try speaking your next three thoughts to yourself in Koine Greek, and see
if you don't discover something.
Randall Buth
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Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
randallbuth at gmail.com
Biblical Language Center
Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
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