[B-Greek] Fw: write - was suggestions please
Barry H.
nebarry at verizon.net
Tue May 31 22:06:53 EDT 2011
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From: "Shirley Rollinson" <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 9:11 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Fw: write - was suggestions please
>By now you have had many great suggestions from the B-Greek list,
He really has, hasn't he?
>but I'd like to add my 2-lepta also :
>You say you're thinking of translating 1 John - Yes, it is one of the
>"standard" texts to start NT Greek study, but be prepared for relative
>pronouns, and a bunch of perfect tenses.
>Revelation would be a simpler "read" - with a good story-line, though some
>vocabulary which you don't meet elsewhere in the NT.
I would suggest the gospels. I like starting with Mark, and then Luke-Acts.
Nothing like good sequential narrative to get a flow of context and see how
the language actually moves. Revelation I would argue against as a first
read, simply because the Greek is so idiosyncratic (and in a few places,
downright solecistic). Then a Pauline epistle or two, and then maybe John
and 1st John, which are, shall we say, deceptively simple on a syntactical
level. After that the order shouldn't matter too much. Just read lots of
Greek.
>As you descibe yourself as "budding", I think some of the texts which folk
>have suggested may be a bit daunting, and to my mind the purpose of
>learning NT Greek is to read the NT, so start with that first.
Then try the LXX (maybe next year), then (maybe some years in the future)
Church Fathers, then Classics. Homer only if you are prepared to learn a
bunch of new grammar.
For extra-biblical authors, Epictetus, Josephus, and Lucian of Samasota.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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