[B-Greek] David Alan Black on "a cheap familiarity with New Testament Greek"

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jan 23 11:27:14 EST 2011


Rod Decker posted a blog-entry yesterday (http://ntresources.com/blog/?p=1122) entitled, "Dave Black on translations." You may prefer to access the original at
http://www.daveblackonline.com/blog.htm and scroll down -- but the paragraph that took my fancy is one that Rod quotes:

"One of the distressing developments in our superficial church culture is a cheap familiarity with New Testament Greek. It is fashionable to give the impression that we (and we alone) know what the Greek really says. I have sometimes referred to this as “evangelical Greek” or, in my less sanctified moments, “philological voodoo.” There is no place in evangelical biblical scholarship for the frivolous approach by which we claim for ourselves an inerrant understanding of Scripture. None of us who has labored in the task of Bible translation is ever worthy to claim perfection for our product. That includes me, and it includes you."

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






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