[B-Greek] Is it reasonable to desire to read the GNT without looking up any words?
Harold R. Holmyard III
hholmyard at ont.com
Fri Mar 12 06:37:01 EST 2004
Dear James,
I had my first Greek course in about 1977 and still look up words
occasionally. One forgets. And some words just occur once. I can read most
of the NT without trouble, but Acts involves more looking up, for example
chapter 27 and the shipwreck.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
>I have finished reading the gospel of John and am almost finished with the
>book of Revelation in the GNT. However ch. 18 of Revelation contained
>numerous words that I had to look up in my BDAG and other Greek tools that
>I have. Is it reasonable to expect that an average person may be able to
>read through the GNT without having to look up any words? I assume that
>such personages as Bill Mounce (morphological scholar), Carl Conrad
>(long-time Greek scholar), Bruce Metzger, authors of the many Greek
>grammars that are available, ktl can read through the GNT from beginning
>to end and understand every Greek word that is written in it. The one
>piece of advice that has been given by B-Greekers is to constantly read
>the GNT. I have heeded this advice and have found it to be immensely
>satisfying and instructive. Being a layman's layman I never plan on being
>able to obtain any formal Greek education but do look forward to not
>having to look up so many words one day (except in the quest t
> o further understand the significant meaning of some words).
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