From: Glenn Cook (pule67@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jan 06 2001 - 05:45:22 EST
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From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 12:39 PM
Subject: [b-greek] RE: Interlinears, Analyticals and E- Bibles
> At 11:44 AM -0700 1/5/01, Clayton Javurek wrote:
> >Clayton Javurek
> >E-MAIL: javurek@asu.edu
> >
> >There are just a few persons (and they will always be few in number)
> >who do their Greek the old fashioned way like Solomon,Smith,Barney - they
> >earn it!
> >
> >99.99% of human beings are just like water and electricity:
> >Take the path of least resistance.
> >
> >Given those facts, it is a waste of time to lament over or trying to turn
> >the tide of human nature when these electronic tools of Bible study
> >are marketed. Information is no longer the privilege of an elite group
> >of scholars or professionals. Technology has put tons of info at
> >the fingertips of John Q Public. Just ask those who work with
> >financial investing. John Q Public can get up to date info
> >on the financial markets as fast as can any professional. The info age
> >is here and there is no turning back. Stop crying over spilled milk.
>
> Yes, and there were the days before books when most people had to list to
a
> Biblical text read out loud from a lectern; I don't think it makes a great
> deal of sense to lament the fact that we've moved into a new technology
and
> that it affects the way scholarship and serious study are engaged in to a
> considerable degree. What we must learn to do is to maximize the
> opportunities of the new technology and note the perils of it. The first
> great adventure confronted by the tradition with which we are concerned
was
> re-formulating it into the categories of the Greek language with all the
> vast possibilities for good and evil that entailed.
>
> Really I don't think this is the proper forum to lament the fact that we
> live in the 21st century; while I think we must become as fully as aware
as
> we can, as we can become aware of them, of the perils involved, but I
> hardly think that we can reject the computer revolution and nod our heads
> and assert to all the world that it is surely a sad day for New Testament
> scholarship and serious biblical study; I rather think it's exciting.
>
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics/Washington University
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