[B-Greek] Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Feb 13 00:51:55 EST 2010
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From: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 11:38 PM
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Subject: [B-Greek] Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up thisyearfor Lent
> 3. Just to be clear about #8 above. This is a joke. As far as
> I know, there is no V-Sanskrit, although there probably is a
> list similar to ours for Sanskrit students. But what do you guys
> think of the argument that Sanskrit is the second most important
> language for Biblical Greekers to learn, after Hebrew? I suppose
> Aramaic and Latin have a case. If your Greek is fairly good, would
> that make learning Sanskrit much easier? I'm told that Vedic syntax
> has some similarities to Homeric Greek. I would like to see for
> myself.
> Also, I wonder how V-Sanskriters deal with living language issues.
> Do they argue about the value of learning Modern Hindi? Do they
> fight over
> pronunciation? Are there any V-Sanskriters lurking on our list
> right now? Is learning a little Sanskrit a dangerous thing for
> B-Greekers?
> If someone was studying Sanskrit and they wanted to learn
> a little Greek, say just the alphabet and look through a few grammars
> and
> make note of all the cognates from PIE, would you tell them that
> learning a
> little Greek is a dangerous thing? If not, why is it a dangerous
> thing for
> preachers?
http://www.americansanskrit.com/
http://www.samskrtam.org/
http://sanskritdocuments.org/
On yahoogroups I found:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Kalidasa/
"This group is meant to learn, teach and disscus [sic] the divine language
Sanskrit."
Though it appears that they have not been very active, unlike some other
groups I could mention... :)
I had a chance to take Sanskrit in graduate school (several of my grad
school colleagues did) but couldn't fit it into my schedule.
BTW, the second most common joke after "It's all Greek to me" is "I know a
little Greek. He owns a restaurant downtown..."
For b-Greekers, I would recommend Latin and Coptic, followed by Aramaic.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te...
-- Augustine, Confessions 1:1
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