[B-Greek] Do-it-Yourself Greek Readers

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 1 22:16:42 EST 2011


Thanks for sharing your method, Jeremy.

I like it. I like that it is active.  I like hearing how we all go about 
learning this language. 


ερρωσο.

 Mark L



FWSFOROS MARKOS




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From: "spencerj76 at aol.com" <spencerj76 at aol.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Tue, March 1, 2011 11:44:33 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Do-it-Yourself Greek Readers



1 Mar 2011

Friends:

It's been fun to follow the thread of this discussion on Greek "readers." Here's 
a do-it-yourself
method for creating your own NT Greek Reader: 

If I'm really bearing down on a Greek text, I like to type the entire text in 
Greek into a word processor. 

Then, at points where I want to record word definitions (from multiple 
dictionaries), grammatical information, and even comments
on the Greek that I discover in sources like the New International Greek
Testament Commentary and so forth, I use the "reference" part of my word 
processor to add in-text
footnotes at the bottom of the page. Or if there's an illustrative Greek text 
elsewhere in the NT, or, for that matter,
anywhere else, I'll add that to a footnote as well. Printing all that out for 
further study, sermon preparation (in my line of work), and so forth, 

I've created a personalized reader of sorts. If I'm feeling ambitious, I'll add 
an attempted translation, too.
All this (and more) goes into a three-ring notebook which becomes, over time, 
a resource for fairly large chunks of the NT. The same process can be used for 
non-biblical Greek texts as well, though I've done
only a bit of that to date. (What I have on non-biblical Greek texts are mostly 
word lists and reference numbers.)

What I'm starting to do with non-biblical Greek texts is this: I'll read an 
English translation and then identify the parts I might like
to try to attempt in Greek, then maybe go back and work on just those 
selections. It helps to maintain my motivation if I'm already interested in the 
selection.

Someday, maybe I'll hope to have retained enough vocabulary to "take and read," 
as Augustine famously did. Until then, I work away at it....but at the
same time, it's fun.

Best wishes,
Jeremy Spencer


      


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