[B-Greek] Fw: write - was suggestions please

Kevin Riley klriley at alphalink.com.au
Tue May 31 22:11:54 EDT 2011


I would suggest Mark for no other reason than that it is short.  I 
remember starting with Luke, but I never did get to the end.  When you 
are starting out, and each page takes a considerable time to read, you 
don't want the end to be too far from the beginning.  That is one thing 
1John has in its favour.

Kevin Riley

On 1/06/2011 12:06 PM, Barry H. wrote:
>
> 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.
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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