[B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?

Margaret Sim margaret_sim at sil.org
Wed Sep 30 12:48:00 EDT 2009


Clayton and Steve,
I agree that many Greeks work on their language from a linguistic 
perspective: several PhD theses have come out from University College, 
London, but Dr Chris Caragounis has written on NT Greek: Caragounis, C.C. 
(2004) 'The Development of Greek and the New Testament'. Tubingen: Mohr 
Siebeck. His book is well worth looking through. He constantly complains 
that New Testament scholars do not atempt to find out what Greeks thought 
about their own language!!
There are older Greek scholars who have written on the history of Greek, 
with considerable material from the NT but as Steve suggested their focus is 
more general.
Yours,

Margaret Sim
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Runge" <srunge at logos.com>
To: "Clayton Javurek" <javurek at asu.edu>; "B-Greek" 
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?


> 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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