[B-Greek] GRONT SCORE
Paul Zellmer
pzellmer at sc.rr.com
Sat Nov 13 08:25:16 EST 2010
Louis,
The GRONT scale was proposed by Mark earlier this month. I'm embedding a
copy of his original post.
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>From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark Lightman
>Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 8:11 AM
>To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [B-Greek] The GRONT Scale
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>GRONT stands for Greek Readings Outside the New Testament. The GRONT Scale
is
>designed to determine which Greek texts are best for NT Greek learners to
read.
>The Scale combines three factors:
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>1. Close to the Greek of the NT.
>2. Easy.
>3. Good Greek.
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>I can only rate, and I have only rated, the few Greek writings outside the
NT
>that I have read, but I doubt that any other Greek writings would score
higher
>on the GRONT Scale. Here are the highest GRONT scores:
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>IGNATIUS Close to NT 9 Easy 7 Good 6 TOTAL 22
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>DIDACHE Close to NT 9 Easy 9 Good 3 TOTAL 21
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>PLATO Close to NT 7 Easy 5 Good 9 TOTAL 21
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>LXX Close to NT 8 Easy 9 Good 3 TOTAL 20
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>HOMER Close to NT 3 Easy 7 Good 10 TOTAL20
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>CHARITON Close to NT 8 Easy 8 Good 4 TOTAL 20
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>LONGUS Close to NT 7 Easy 7 Good 6 TOTAL 20
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>EPICTETUS Close to NT 8 Easy 7 Good 4 TOTAL 19
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>The margin of error for the GRONT Scale is plus or minus 4.5.
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>The GRONT Scale confirms the subjective consensus established on B-Greek,
that
>the Apostolic Fathers are probably the best thing for GNT learners to read,
but
>since the numbers are so closely bunched together, you should just forget
about
>the GRONT Scale and read anything in Greek that you want.
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>I would like to see other B-Greekers rate some other writers that I am
curious
>about. Outside of a few selections, I have not read Plutarch or Philo or
>Josephus, but my guess is that they would rate lower on the GRONT Scale
than the
>authors I have rated. Herodotus and Thucydides might produce GRONT scores
in
>the low teens.
> Mark L
>Φωσφορος
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>FWSFOROS MARKOS
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Hope this helps,
Paul Zellmer
-----Original Message-----
From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Louis Sorenson
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 8:12 AM
To: Mark Lightman; B-Greek List mail to all
Subject: [B-Greek] GRONT SCORE
Mark,
I'm trying to remember what GRONT stands for. I cannot get Bing, Google or
Yahoo to find anything in the B-Greek archives about GRONT. Those search
engines all want to replace it with Grant - very weird. I assume it is an
analysis standard (someone on B-Greek dreamed up) for comparing the
similarity of the Greek New Testament vocab and syntax to other Koine
literature?
Louis Sorenson
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