[B-Greek] The BANE of Biblical Greek Pedagogy
nebarry
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Wed Feb 23 09:57:25 EST 2011
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The BANE of Biblical Greek Pedagogy
> Machen's New Testament Greek for Beginners was designed for a remedial
> class of seminary students who couldn't already read Attic Greek. As for
> himself, Machen began studying Latin at 11 and Greek at 14 which he
> continued to study through college prior to entering Princeton Theological
> Seminary. Today, very few students enter seminary capable of reading
> Greek, so the remedial patch has become the norm.
> If a student is going to only take two to three semesters of Greek he
> isn't going to become a competent reader of the NT no matter how good t he
> pedagogy is.
<brag>
Our students at the American academy, unless they start in a higher grade,
will have had 4-5 years of Greek, Attic and Koine (through reading selection
from the GNT), by the time they graduate and before they start college. So
there...
</brag>
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible @ TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net
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