[B-Greek] Koine Greek pedagogy

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Oct 5 09:16:29 EDT 2010


Rick Brannan has some follow-up comments on Porter, Reed and O’Donnell’s _Fundamentals of NT Greek_ in his blog this morning:
http://www.supakoo.com/rick/ricoblog/2010/10/05/MoreOnPorterReedAndOrsquoDonnellrsquosFundamentalsOfNTGreek.aspx
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Randall will appreciate the comments, "These books make me yearn to go to Israel and take Greek from Randall Buth. (Not that I had to be pushed too hard anyway). Don’t get me wrong, there is good stuff in Porter’s book. But I get the feel from it that Greek is something to be memorized, analyzed, and measured; then we can make conclusions. Instead, I want feel and hear the language, and sense what is being communicated by the NT writers. I don’t want to (necessarily) analyze it to pieces."

My view is that analysis is useful only AFTER one has come to understand the essentials of the Greek text heard or read. Analysis may help you understand WHY the text means what it does, but it won't help you understand WHAT the text says.

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






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