[B-Greek] Spoken World: Greek
Nikolaos Adamou
nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com
Tue Apr 14 15:00:46 EDT 2009
Since Greek is one living language, it make more sense, and it is much easier for one to learn modern Greek and then go to Biblical Greek and Classical Greek.
This way, one can communicate in Greek, get the phonology, and the continuation of the language. Even the best way to approach the language is via its poetry. Trypanis put a great book from Homer to today's poets that show the continuation.
Knowing modern Greek and classical Greek grammar one can go straight to the literature form the 2nd century before Christ to the 3rd century after Christ easily.
Greek as a language, besides knowledge, requires feeling.
When one can learn it assuming that it is a dead language, more or less like Latin, then even can capture its grammatical and syntactical aspects, is missing exactly that feeling of the language.
That feeling is important when one wants to deal with theology or philosophy in particular, that accuracy is extremely important.
For example, Rom, 4, 12 "τοῖς στοιχοῦσι τοῖς ἴχνεσι τῆς ἐν τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ πίστεως" is translated in broad terms as " walk in the steps of that
faith... " where the translation is accurate it is not exact.
In the opposite terms, modern science has terms English, that are not easily translated into Greek, and the English word is adopted with Greek characters.
> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:53:46 -0700
> From: yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Spoken World: Greek
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> My friend Ervin Bishop, who studied KOINE at ACU then classical Greek and Latin at UCLA, says that learning modern Greek was like removing blinders.
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> Yancy Smith
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> Fort Worth, TX 76133 USA
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> On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:16 AM, "Daniel, Robert S" <rob.daniel at hp.com> wrote:
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> Is learning modern Greek any help in reading the Bible and other 1st century literature?
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> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl Conrad
> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:13 AM
> To: Jeffrey Cockrell
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Spoken World: Greek
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> If this is what you're talking about, it's pretty clearly MODERN Greek, not Bibilical Greek:
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> http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400024599
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> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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> On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Jeffrey Cockrell wrote:
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> Does anyone have any information on this resource?
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> Jeff Cockrell
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> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400024595/
> ref=pe_5050_11790680_snp_dp
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