[B-Greek] fifteen days of greek

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Thu Jul 16 07:07:53 EDT 2009



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From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
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To: "Elizabeth Kline" <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
Cc: "greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] fifteen days of greek

> Fifteen whole precious days to learn how to pretend to know Greek.
> Juvenal's question is � propos: Who will shepherd the shepherds
> themselves? It seems to me that it would make as much sense -- or
> more-- to spend the fifteen days doing a serious comparative study of
> the major English versions of the NT.

Some time ago, at Westminster Theological Seminary (which devotes a full 
three semesters to beginning Greek), a blind student attended.  At the time, 
resources for teaching such a student Greek were highly limited (I believe 
this was the 1970s -- I don't know if it's much better today), so how to 
fulfill the language requirement?  He ended up agreeing to memorize certain 
books of the NT...

I would also suggest to such students that they would be better off using 
exegetical commentaries when it comes to trying to understand the text.

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, Classics @ Montclair
http://www.montclair.edu/
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
http://www.theamericanacademy.net/

And me: http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog

 




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