[B-Greek] Do we have a remnant of Stephen's verbal speech inActs 7:15-16?

Andrew C. Suttles andrew.suttles at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 08:46:00 EST 2010


Carl Conrad wrote (on Thu, 25 Feb 2010 at 19:58 -0500):

> You are aware, aren't you, that all ancient written texts were composed in
> order to be read aloud, not read silently by parties receiving the text. What'
> important about that is that we need to be aware that all ancietn Greek texts
> were composed with a view to how LISTENERS would HEAR them, not how silent
> readers might ponder a sequence of words that they could deconstruct and
> reconstruct while looking at a piece of writing.

Thanks Dr. Conrad.  We all need to be reminded of this from time to time.




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