From: KAREN PITTS (kpitts@sarnoff.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 11:23:09 EST
Since I learned Greek through a class at church, let me talk about why I
keep it up (I started in late 1991).
1. I love the language. I did not anticipate this when I started it.
2. I do get nuances out of the text that I don't get in English.
3. Reading from the Greek slows me down and makes me think. Probably
reading from any other than a very familiar language would work. One of my
friends that reads Greek with me also reads her Bible in French and German.
4. I now know enough to recognize faulty arguments made by other speakers.
5. I find reading from the Greek more moving. I was gripped by reading
the Passion passages in the Gospels, something I don't think I get from
reading English.
6. I am a resource for the Bible study I am in. I don't answer a question
every week, but there's an interpretation question I can answer, or get the
answers to, with some frequency. Sometimes its a simple as whether "you"
is in singular or plural.
I keep my skills up with B-Greek, teaching (although I'm not currently
teaching a class, I have for most of the last seven years), and reading
regularly with other graduates from our original class.
I'd have a plan in place for keeping the skills up before you start. There
have been very high attrician rates. My class started out at 25 and I
think about 6 finished the equivalent of one semester. The next class
started with about 12-15, with two completing, although both of them are
keeping it up.
Anyway, good luck and God bless.
Karen Pitts
kpitts@sarnoff.com
Sarnoff Corporation
CN-5300
Princeton, NJ 08543-5300
609-734-3045
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