[B-Greek] Because It's Fun (Was Further Study)

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 8 22:28:18 EDT 2009


--- On Tue, 4/7/09, Jeffrey T. Requadt <jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
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?

 
Because it's fun.  For some of us,I suspect most of us,
reading is funner than listening or speaking.  Don't get me
wrong, I like listening to my mother-in-law's English. I enjoy
speaking to my boss in English.  But what I REALLY love is crawling into
bed at the end of the day and reading a good book in English.  I can't
understand Shakespeare "as quickly as possible," but that's
why I love it.  When I see McBeth performed, I can't wait to get
home and re-read the play, and yes, I parse and analyze and look
up words.  I've had to make this point before on the list, when the
Buthians get carried away in their enthusiasm for audio learning.
B-greek is not French.  It's not LIKE French. To me, it's FUN to 
try to figure out if something is a partitive or quasi-partitive
genitive.  I know Paul would not have cared about this.  But
I enjoy Greek more than he did  because I learned it from from
books in arm chairs while he learned if from a household of
screaming siblings.  He knew Greek better than I did, but I've
had more fun with it.
 
This all started  with a question (I forget from whom) about how to learn more
grammar.  I understand why Randall and others would lead you
in a different direction, but go on and read grammar because it's
fun.  Max Zerwick's two books are the best.
 
Mark L.  
 


      


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