Aussie Gal vs Koine Greek....help!!! 🤔🤔🤔

[I_Wonder]

Hey there from the sunny shores of Australia.

I’m thrilled to find textkit & this forum.
I’m currently doing a personal Bible study (mainly NT) & particularly interested in revisiting scripture passages that have been a little puzzling to me over the years or have been given explanations that I don’t find satisfactory or congruent, with the rest of scripture.

I usually mull over my quanderies in multiple ways but one I find particularly useful, is to use the Greek interlinier translation to get a more nuanced or even broader perspective of what the original Greek was intending to express.

Soooo, because I haven’t got a clue regarding Greek grammar and all those weird terms like ‘periphasic participle’ & ‘genetive absolute’ etc etc I was hoping I could get some insight from others who can decipher the text accurately, to avoid the ever common, eisegesis of scripture.

I will post my first Koine Greek scripture quandary very soon.

Thanks in advance to the highly esteemed Greek Geeks that I am hopefully soon to encounter!

[bedwere]

Welcome to Textkit!

[Villanelle]

Hey there from the sunny shores of Australia.

I’m thrilled to find textkit & this forum.
I’m currently doing a personal Bible study (mainly NT) & particularly interested in revisiting scripture passages that have been a little puzzling to me over the years or have been given explanations that I don’t find satisfactory or congruent, with the rest of scripture.

I usually mull over my quanderies in multiple ways but one I find particularly useful, is to use the Greek interlinier translation to get a more nuanced or even broader perspective of what the original Greek was intending to express.

Soooo, because I haven’t got a clue regarding Greek grammar and all those weird terms like ‘periphasic participle’ & ‘genetive absolute’ etc etc I was hoping I could get some insight from others who can decipher the text accurately, to avoid the ever common, eisegesis of scripture.

I will post my first Koine Greek scripture quandary very soon.

Thanks in advance to the highly esteemed Greek Geeks that I am hopefully soon to encounter!

Hi I wonder,

I’m in Australia too but I’m getting stuck into Classical Greek rather than Koine. If you ever want to chat about Classical sometime to another person in your timezone please feel free to reach out!

Cheers.

[Barry_Hofstetter]

Hey there from the sunny shores of Australia.

I’m thrilled to find textkit & this forum.
I’m currently doing a personal Bible study (mainly NT) & particularly interested in revisiting scripture passages that have been a little puzzling to me over the years or have been given explanations that I don’t find satisfactory or congruent, with the rest of scripture.

I usually mull over my quanderies in multiple ways but one I find particularly useful, is to use the Greek interlinier translation to get a more nuanced or even broader perspective of what the original Greek was intending to express.

Soooo, because I haven’t got a clue regarding Greek grammar and all those weird terms like ‘periphasic participle’ & ‘genetive absolute’ etc etc I was hoping I could get some insight from others who can decipher the text accurately, to avoid the ever common, eisegesis of scripture.

I will post my first Koine Greek scripture quandary very soon.

Thanks in advance to the highly esteemed Greek Geeks that I am hopefully soon to encounter!

Why not take the time actually to learn the language? You can get help on this list toward that end, and lots of online resources available.

[persequor]

Barry is right. Actually learning the language will help you more toward those goals in the end. There are plenty of people here who can and will support you in that effort.

And no, interlinears actually do not help you much with nuances, because they tend to level things and skew them. For instance, they might translate the word λόγος (logos) as “word” in most passages. However, this term, like many others, has a whole range of meanings that vary by context. In this case, “message”, “teaching”, “account”, etc., etc. Far better to compare several good regular English translations, putting a more “literal” one (I dislike that term in translation discussions, because it tends to mislead, but it is commonly used) with more natural-language idiomatic ones. This will show some nuances and help suggest areas for further investigation. For instance, compare the ESV or NRSV to the GNB, NET, or NIV.

Learning the Greek language well, however, is even better because you will be able to access the texts unfiltered. You will be able to interact with the author directly, and not be so dependent on the judgments of others. Just as it is better first to read the relevant Biblical texts on a topic you are studying , then consult commentaries. Many people run to the commentaries first, a mistake in my view.