Syntax Grammars

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sat Dec 4 19:55:39 EST 1999


At 06:47 PM 12/4/99 -0600, you wrote:

>
>Not to quibble, each to their own, and all that, but I would class Dana & 
>Mantey's as an intermediate (rather than advanced) grammar. 

Whenever someone says "not to quibble" you can expect the quibbling forthwith.

>Other 
>intermediate grammars would include: "An Exegetical Grammar of the Greek 
>New Testament" by William Douglas Chamberlain (1941); "An Idiom Book of New 
>Testament Greek" by C. F. D. Moule (2nd edition; Cambridge UP, 1959); and: 
>"Idioms of the Greek New Testament" by Stanley E. Porter (Sheffield 

I agree- But the precise question was about advanced Greek syntax- not
advanced greek grammars.  In my view, Dana nicely summarizes the features of
advanced greek syntax.

Regarding advanced greek grammars, I take the 9th german edition of  Blass -
Debrunner to be authoritative.  Robertson is dreadfully dense (in a number
of ways), and Moule's idiom book is not very useful.

best,

Jim

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