[B-Greek] What makes a good Greek Commentary?
Michael Aubrey
mga318 at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 20 23:32:17 EDT 2009
> 1. IT HAS TO BE COMPLETE. A commentary has to give you
> help with ALL the diffficult passages. It's frustrating to come
> across a difficult word or construction and look it up in several
> commentaries and find nothing on it. A good commentary has
> to somehow anticipate which passages will cause the reader
> trouble and hit them all. It should probably offer a literal translation
> of all the really difficult passages.
I don't think I would want a "literal" translation. I'd prefer a functional/meaning
based translation with notes following why construction X means Y.
Mike Aubrey
http://evepheso.wordpress.com
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