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Re: Expectations in Summer Elem. Gk. (fwd)
> From: Greg Daugherty <gdaugher@cscsun.rmc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Expectations in Summer Elem. Gk. (fwd)
> To: nt-greek@virginia.edu
> Date sent: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 10:19:46 -0500 (EST)
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> From @CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU:owner-classics@UWAVM.U.WASHINGTON.EDU Wed Dec 15 16:35:11 1993
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1993 15:27:00 CST
>
> On summer Greek for seminary students:
> The policy of Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, MS
> (very closely aligned with Calvin Seminary) was that the
> seminarians know enough Greek to be able to use the handbooks
> or tools (helps?) and the commentaries to muddle through
> a few words of the Greek ... if they had demanded serious
> knowledge of the Greek or serious exegesis there would
> have been a mass exodus from seminary. Small Greek and
> less Hebrew could have been the motto. In other words,
> yes, I think 10 weeks CAN prepare seminary-bound students,
> the way things are.
> Kirk Summers
> Loyola University - Chicago
Kirk:
Please explain what you mean by "policy" of RTS. The policy and the
practice may be different, depending on the student population at any
particular year. When I received my MDiv from RTS, the policy and
practice was to teach the languages and interpretation skills in
detail, and to require serious exegesis papers using these tools.
The policy of the seminary is to prepare students with reformed
backgrounds to preach in their respective churches. Since these are
primarily Presbyterian churches, the Westminster Standards defined the
official policy of the seminary.
Yes, when I was there, there was much crying and gnashing of teeth by
students who were ill prepared to handle serious language study (even
English), and classes often missed the mark of preparing those
students, but that was not the fault of the policy of the seminary.
Perhaps you meant "practice" instead of "policy," and at a particular
point in time, not in the first 25 years of the seminary's life.
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