Why I have a problem with lists.
There is a regrettable tendency in some seminaries (possibly elsewhere) to
teach intro Greek as lists of paradigms and list of glosses and lists of
syntax rules. If you grill the professor about this approach you will be told
that all of this will get straightened out when the student gets to a more
advanced level of study.
The problem with this is some students never get to a more advanced level of
study. What they learned first is what they take away and use for life and
twenty-five years later you find the pastor still approaching NT Greek as
lists of paradigms and list of glosses and lists of syntax rules.
For this reason I have misgivings about teaching it wrong first and then
clearing the matter up later. There is no "later" for a lot of students.
-- Clayton Stirling Bartholomew Three Tree Point P.O. Box 255 Seahurst WA 98062
PostScript
I have been listening in with much amazement over the last few months to discussions of G. Sharp. I simply cannot fathom what is going on when people get excited about this kind of stuff. G. Sharp made his observations based on evidence that we still have (we have more and better evidence). Why are we picking apart G. Sharp like a group of Orthodox Rabbi's arguing over some obscure passage in the Talmud?
With all due respect to G. Sharp, why don't we just discuss the evidence and let Dr. Sharp rest in peace.