Grammars

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Fri Dec 10 08:18:57 EST 1999


To: the Rev. Gordon K. Goltz,

<< For an intermediate grammar of koine Blass/Debrunner/Funk is the 
standard. For the more advanced, Grammar of New Testament Greek by James 
Hope Moulton is classic. >>

I've posted a couple quibbling messages encouraging people to expand their 
categories beyond the two bipolar extremes of "beginner" and "advanced" so 
as to add a third category "intermediate" into their vocabulary. And now, 
someone has taken my exhortation to heart. But I wonder, you didn't just 
assume that since BDF was only one volume, whereas the 
Moulton-Howard-Turner [MHT] grammar is four volumes that this means BDF is 
an intermediate grammar and MHT is an advanced grammar, did you? Surely 
there must have been some other criterion at work here, yes?

<< A useful grammar for beginning Koine is one by James Voelz published by 
Concordia Publishing House in St. Louis, MO. >>

In addition to taking into account some of the new insights on Verbal 
aspect, Voelz's grammar also tries to take into account that many students 
might also be weak in their knowledge of  English grammar.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Disclaimer: "I'm just a simple house-husband (with no post-grad degree), 
what do I know?"




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