[B-Greek] You Are Smarter Than a Lexicon (?)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Jun 3 11:36:35 EDT 2010


On Jun 3, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
> 
> On Jun 3, 2010, at 6:54 AM, Carl Conrad wrote:
> 
>> "There is simply no substitute in word study ...
> 
> Word study is IMO probably the most over rated exegetical activity. What one should study is discourse, not words. 

Only one and not the other? I don't think I'd want to depend on
any one resource alone for understanding an ancient Greek text.
Is it really true that understanding discourse doesn't involve
understanding words at all?


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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