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- July 16th, 2013, 8:11 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Managing Time as a Self-Taught Beginner
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6079
Re: Managing Time as a Self-Taught Beginner
One of the purposes of B-Greek is to provide support for self-learners. Feel free to post questions on anything with which you might be struggling , or anything concerning which it might be helpful to have feedback. I'd like to reinforce what Barry says here. Good questions from people at various s...
- July 16th, 2013, 5:31 am
- Forum: Grammars
- Topic: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek
- Replies: 32
- Views: 55791
Re: Funk - A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic G
I got a copy too. The layout is very attractive, I'm really happy to have it. And it's the same great grammar.
- July 14th, 2013, 10:50 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20403
Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
I've also found Goetchius' "The Language of the New Testament" is very informative on various structures and on par if not better than Funk in some areas). I bought a copy on this recommendation, along with the workbook, and I have to say that I'm very impressed. Very clear writing, great...
- July 13th, 2013, 10:43 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20403
Re: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
What a great quote!cwconrad wrote:Participles in ancient Greek are at once the beasts of burden and the Trojan horses of Greek verb usage.
- July 11th, 2013, 4:23 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: τινες ἐξ αὐτων ἄνδρες Acts 11:20
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1831
Re: τινες ἐξ αὐτων ἄνδρες Acts 11:20
I'm also skeptical of the claim.Stephen Carlson wrote:I'm skeptical of the claim. I don't think that six data points are sufficient to substantiate this.
- July 11th, 2013, 3:53 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: τινες ἐξ αὐτων ἄνδρες Acts 11:20
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1831
Re: τινες ἐξ αὐτων ἄνδρες Acts 11:20
Please forgive me asking a very tiny point, but it might be of relevance to an argument advanced by one Joseph Prince, that we know that Ananias and Sapphira were unbelievers because Ananias is introduced in Acts 5:1 as Ἀνὴρ δέ τις Ἁνανίας, and that ἀνὴρ τις is a term used only of unbelievers (Acts...
- July 10th, 2013, 9:04 pm
- Forum: The Verb in Koine Greek
- Topic: 03: The expression of past, present, and future
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27535
Re: 03: The expression of past, present, and future
The major theoretical issue is whether the Koine system (and presumably the classical one as well) actually does express tense or as R. put it, location in absolute time. In the Koine field, this has been a hotly debated issue at least since 1989 and shows no sign of ending soon. I will only note a...
- July 9th, 2013, 11:35 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20403
Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
If, on the other hand, what we're talking about really is a good "intermediate Greek Syntax," I think we might do worse than focus shared efforts on reformulating those chapters of Funk's BIGHG now on the eve of its publication in a revised 3rd edition. One matter on which Louis and I hav...
- July 9th, 2013, 5:53 am
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20403
Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
Grammars of modern languages sort of assume that people communicate (write and speak) in them. How long has it been since someone "knew" Koine (or NT) greek and wrote a grammar? How are you measuring? Nobody has spoken Koine as their native language for a long time, and few of us would fi...
- July 8th, 2013, 8:18 pm
- Forum: Resources
- Topic: A Model for a New Koine Syntax?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 20403
Re: Best Intermediate Greek Syntax
Here's what I need to provide infrastructure for a project like this: two or more people who agree about what they want to do, and a realistic plan for how to get it done. I basically want to avoid starting projects that won't finish. Given that, I'm happy to help set up infrastructure that suits th...