[B-Greek] The BANE of Biblical Greek Pedagogy

nebarry nebarry at verizon.net
Wed Feb 23 09:57:25 EST 2011


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> 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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