[B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?

Steve Runge srunge at logos.com
Wed Sep 30 11:34:46 EDT 2009


Clayton,

Believe it or not, NT studies is a fairly narrow and small field of study. If you look into either the linguistic literature on Greek, or into the Classics, you will find far more Greeks actively involved in the field. You can find discussion of NT Greek in the literature by Greeks, but it is typically in the linguistic literature. NT usage is one subset of Koine, which is a subset of ancient Greek. Linguists tend to look at the bigger picture. Regarding linguistics in NT studies, few really venture too far off the home turf in their studies, so not much is brought in from the "outside world."

Regarding the question of NT education, I think that much more of a premium is placed on either British or Israeli universities that Greek universities. Until this changes, I doubt that you will find many NT scholars heading to Greece, unfortunately. Until some or group of someones from a Greek university does some monumental study, I doubt things will change very much in the foreseeable future.

Steve

Steven Runge, DLitt (Biblical Languages)
Scholar-in-Residence
Logos Bible Software
www.ntdiscourse.org
 

 

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Clayton G. Javurek
E-Mail: javurek at asu.edu


Dear B-Greek,

I wanted to know why it is that we do not ever hardly hear of NT Scholars who have a Ph.D. in NT and Hellenistic studies from universities in modern day Greece?

Haven't these scholars from Greece who have Ph.D from universities in Greece produced anything worthwhile reading, studying, or discussing?

Thanks for any light you can shed on the question.



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