[B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in Greece?
Vasileios Tsialas
tsialas78 at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 30 14:17:30 EDT 2009
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:03:36 -0700
> From: edmishoe at yahoo.com
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org;
javurek at asu.edu
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] NT Greek Scholars in
Greece?
>
> Clayton:
>
> Modern Greeks have no more of an advantage in
studying Classical and Hellenistic Greek than does an English student. To
modern Greeks, Hellenistic Greek is a completely different language. The only
advantage a modern Greek student has is the barrier of getting use to the
alphabet.
>
> And, the modern Greek actually has a barrier
that English (and other non-Greek) native speakers do not have: they have to
'unlearn' much of their vocabulary, syntax and grammar. The research and
writings by Caragounis, who is a Greek, demonstrates this. His writings show no
more of an insight than any other Greek scholar when it comes to understanding
a Greek text.
>
> Eddie Mishoe
>
> Pastor
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>
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Dear Eddie Mishoe,
I wouldn't accept, and many scholars would
not also, that Hellenistic Greek is "a completely different language" from
Modern Greek, since Hellenistic Greek is the basis of our Modern Greek, the
grammar and the vocabulary being similar to a great extent.
In addition, now all
Greek high school students have as a lesson both Classical and Hellenistic
Greek for more than three years.
Vasileios Tsialas
Athens, Greece
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