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To: Ilaine who wrote (29830)	6/24/1999 3:48:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

I bet its at least as boring as his first books. That's called a "palimpsest." Parchment was so costly that you scraped it off and buffed it down and rewrote over it. Couldn't be done with papyrus. In my opinion the easiest way to learn Greek, although its not my favorite variety, is the New Testament. There are wonderful Greek texts on the web which you can use to click on definitions and philological sources. Also Hebrew where appropriate. It opens up a whole new dimension to the study of Scripture which used to be open to all educated people (Madison and Jefferson both knew Latin, Greek and Hebrew as almost every college graduate did until the Morrill Act was passed). Shaksper ("Little Latin and less Greek"), Franklin, smart as he was, Lincoln, and Washington were considered rather infra dig because they didn't know the classic languages.