[B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent

Barry nebarry at verizon.net
Mon Feb 15 00:10:34 EST 2010



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From: "Elizabeth Kline" <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2010 11:51 PM
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] interlinear anxiety (was Top Ten Things thatB-Greekerswill be giving up this	year for Lent

> I am also baffled at the anxiety and hysteria.

For me, it's not anxiety or hysteria, just a deeply rooted antipathy.

> I was told by someone who was there, that one of the top NT Greek 
> linguists, a name familiar to all of you but not a member of this list, 
> attended a seminar on NT linguistics with an interlinear under his arm. 
> Interlinear text is quite often used in books published for bible 
> translation professionals. <<

Really?  What is the rationale?  Makes me glad that I'm not a "bible 
translation professional."

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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