Judas Maccabeus wrote:It would be my contention that a Greek concentration like you describe may be better done in grad. school. I don't know what someone with that as an undergrad major would actually do with it.
That's fair. And for what it's worth, that's precisely what most people in the Classics get when they study Greek.
But for perspective, undergraduates would have frequently had this level of Greek by the time they graduated in the late 1800s or early 1900s. And you can see that in the depth of discussion among commentaries like ICC, Meyer, Expositor's Greek, etc.
Digital resources don't replace that level of knowledge. They can allow someone with a term or two of Greek to read texts that would normally be beyond them, though, making it a lot easier to do lots of immersive reading, and I think 30 minutes to an hour a day of reading Greek texts adds up over the years. Ultimately, you learn a language by using it. And there are online forums where people can ask questions and get answers from experts.
I think we need better digital resources, though, resources that show things like the structure of complex Greek sentences using accessible notation. We need them to be available in software that normal human beings can afford.
And we also need better programs in Greek and Hebrew at universities and seminaries. Most colleges and seminaries are slashing these programs. Some of this is happening in a lot of places right now, and maybe Sattler will be part of the solution.
There are also a lot of people who would do the work to learn these languages but can't afford to go to a university or seminary. In 5-10 years, I bet there will be reasonable ways to learn these languages online.
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