How to progress to patristics?
Posted: November 17th, 2016, 6:51 pm
Hi everyone,
I am by no means an expert in reading biblical greek, but I am at the point where I can read some of the easier books of the bible in greek quite comfortably. (i.e. 1 John is a pleasure to read, but Hebrews and its frequent hapax legomena is still a bit of a nightmare.
I opened up Barnabas, and 1:1 is like, "whoo this is easy", and then 1:2 is like "errr, what on earth language is this".
Aside from doing daily reading in greek, is there anything specific that might help better prepare me for patristics? (I will have the privilege of doing Intermediate greek next semester, but that is 3 months away).
I am by no means an expert in reading biblical greek, but I am at the point where I can read some of the easier books of the bible in greek quite comfortably. (i.e. 1 John is a pleasure to read, but Hebrews and its frequent hapax legomena is still a bit of a nightmare.
I opened up Barnabas, and 1:1 is like, "whoo this is easy", and then 1:2 is like "errr, what on earth language is this".
Aside from doing daily reading in greek, is there anything specific that might help better prepare me for patristics? (I will have the privilege of doing Intermediate greek next semester, but that is 3 months away).