From: Alan B. Thomas (a_b_thomas@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 09:34:47 EDT
Kenneth...
I should apologize for my hyperbole. I hope I did
NOT convey the idea... never read grammar books.
What I had hoped to convey was that I think we should
not take short cuts by simply learning a laundry list
of, for example, Genitives. And then, when we
encounter
a Genitive in the GNT, run down our laundry list until
one seems like it fits.
I think a native Koine Greek reader was so familiar
with the lexical implications of his or her language,
that a Gen. construct was pretty much understood
without consciously running down a laundry list of
Genitives. The best hope we have of attaining such
proficiency, IMO, is by reading volumes of Greek.
For example, if you had read an old Greek grammar
book,
you might have learned that the Aorist describes
a "once-for-all" action. Had you not read another
Greek
grammar book, you would have seen that such an idea
does not hold up time after time as you read Greek.
Grammars are certainly helpful to our understanding
Greek, and by all means continue to read them!
=====
Sincerely,
Alan B. Thomas
"There may be no way out, but there
is always a way up."
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