[B-Greek] fifteen days of greek

Andrew C. Suttles andrew.suttles at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 08:45:19 EDT 2009


Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> writes:

> Fifteen whole precious days to learn how to pretend to know Greek.  
> Juvenal's question is à 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.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)


I think a lot may depend on the tone that is set.  Using some popular study
tools may provide some level of help in English text studies, as long as the
teacher/students understand their limitations.  A good instructor just might
spark enough interest in the language, that a few students may go ahead and
pursue further studies. Some of these might otherwise have beeen too intimidated
or may not have appreciated the value of original language study.  I think far
too many (most?) seminarians do not continue to refine their skills in the
languages and end up no better than those who are limited to the popular tools -
they're just *abusing* a more expensive dictionary.



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