Re: Either/Or?

From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Mon Apr 27 1998 - 15:53:31 EDT


At 02:38 PM 4/27/98 -0700, you wrote:
>How would the Loeb Classical Library volumes (Greek on one page, English
>on the other) on the Papyri (3 volumes, I believe) do for this kind of
>extra-NT Koine reading?
>

Excellently (but just make sure you cover up that dreadful english side-
else you will be to tempted to look only at the Greek) :)
In fact, anything you can get your hands on would be great. The current
discussion, which seems to fragment knowledge of Greek into subspecialties,
is unfortunate on two counts:
1- folk should be willing to read! Regardless of the so called sanctity of
one set of documents over against another.
2- Such a discussion demonstrates how far the notion of "secular v.
religious" has permeated our culture. Such a distinction did not exist in
the ancient world- so that every text was "religious". Homer, Pindar,
Lucian, Cicero, all were "religious" authors. Just as much as Paul, Peter
(?! ha) and John.

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
Quartz Hill School of Theology

jwest@highland.net



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