Mounce: Enough already?

Mark Gibbs GibbsM at smcsc.edu
Wed Dec 1 20:43:22 EST 1999


I thank all for their input to my initial inquiry.  I hardly realized at
the 
outset that this question would bring about such zeal.  If I did not
before, I 
now know the magnitude of the task at hand.  Thank you Dr. Conrad for
bringing 
this to a gracious close.

Sincerely,
M. Gibbs


>===== Original Message From Carl W. Conrad
<SMTP:cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> 
=====
>At 8:51 PM +1100 11/30/99, S.D. & J.A. Mannix wrote:
>>G'day.
>>
>>The issue of Mounce seems to me
>>to be a storm in a tea-sup.
>>
>>It is a natural thing to draw conclusions
>>about the meanings of texts when studying
>>them in the original languages. After all,
>>isn't that what we are meant to be doing?
>>
>>I haven't ever gotten the impression that
>>Mounce is trying force his interpretations
>>upon me, but I do appreciate the fact that
>>he is thought-provoking.
>>
>>I certainly prefer Mounce to Wuest who seems
>>bent on forcing the text to prove his view points.
>
>I honestly think we've had enough of this, haven't we? Some of it has
>actually concerned reasons why we like or don't like a particular text,
but
>is there really anything more to be said about Mounce's _Basics of
Biblical
>Greek_ that hasn't been said by now (other than to fess up just who
likes
>it and who doesn't?)
>
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Department of Classics/Washington University
>One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
>Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
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>
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