From: Steven Cox (scox@ns1.chinaonline.com.cn.net)
Date: Fri Apr 24 1998 - 11:45:21 EDT
Hi Daniel
That was a beautiful elegy to the joys of classical education,
would that modern world had the time ..I wish I did :-(
But Aeschylus, or reading an inscription from Crete or Boeotia
would presumably be equivalent to Tang Dynasty poems, Goethe
or Cervantes. Is the language of the NT really at that level?
(in terms of complexity I mean, no value judgement involved)
NT only has a 5,000 word vocabulary, which is far less than a
diplomat coming out of 4~6-month crash course would know, and
for Greek there are books like Van Voorst/Robinson/Trenchard
to short cut even this. Plus no time spent on aural and oral.
Mention of which reminds me that my comment about the resources
available for Greek was a bit uncalled for - I saw it in my
in box and it seemed rather ungrateful to people like yourself
compiling mega reference works at least the equal of anything
in any other language. I just meant to say (which is not how it
came across) that the materials for b-greek are a bit "different"
from what one is used to in modern languages, but I was thinking
of how nice it would be if there was a plain straightforward
Collins Koine dictionary.
Best regards
Steven
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