Learn v/s Burn?
Posted: March 14th, 2023, 9:27 am
Hi, I'm new here and this may be a strange question, but its one I'm struggling with and would appreciate any inputs/insights that would help clarify.
I've just finally finished a first run through Mounce's BBG, I've kind of got a grip on the various paradigms and the basics of how the grammar works.
However, with middle-aged memory not at its brightest, my question is should I try and keep revising all these paradigms and exceptions etc so that I can read the scriptures in the original without any aids? The alernative is to use my new-found understanding of the koine in parallel with online parsing help such as gntreader.com. I find when I do the latter, I'm not losing time on trying to figure out the verb forms etc and I can get right down to figuring out what the text is saying, now that I have some grasp of how greek grammar works.
I find that the end-result is the same, the insights from the scriptures that would not otherwise have come through in the English. So what advantage is thare really in not using parsing aids.
Would appreciate the wisdom of the more experienced b-greek hands on this question: the long winding road or the quick burn through the texts using the shortcuts?
I've just finally finished a first run through Mounce's BBG, I've kind of got a grip on the various paradigms and the basics of how the grammar works.
However, with middle-aged memory not at its brightest, my question is should I try and keep revising all these paradigms and exceptions etc so that I can read the scriptures in the original without any aids? The alernative is to use my new-found understanding of the koine in parallel with online parsing help such as gntreader.com. I find when I do the latter, I'm not losing time on trying to figure out the verb forms etc and I can get right down to figuring out what the text is saying, now that I have some grasp of how greek grammar works.
I find that the end-result is the same, the insights from the scriptures that would not otherwise have come through in the English. So what advantage is thare really in not using parsing aids.
Would appreciate the wisdom of the more experienced b-greek hands on this question: the long winding road or the quick burn through the texts using the shortcuts?