A fanfare for our new co-chair: Carlton Winbery
Theodore H Mann
thmann at juno.com
Sun Sep 19 16:26:02 EDT 1999
Thanks to Edward, for his efforts on our behalf, and to Carlton, for his
willingness to serve.
I wouldn't be surprised if I speak for many--perhaps even all--of the
"little-and-intermediate-Greek" list members when I express my delight
and gratitude for having access to the expertise of people like Carl,
Edward, Carlton and Jonathan ( and Jim West, Kevin Woodruff, Mark
Goodacre, etc., etc.). For those of us who are eager to learn, but
limited by the lack of wisdom and knowledge that can only be remedied by
years of study and experience, where else could we possibly turn that
would yield such benefits, especially since the only cost to us is to
formulate sincere questions? I T'INK WE GOT US A PURTY GOOD DEAL HERE !
What amazes me most, however, is that although I have never spoken to any
of you STOMA PROS STOMA (please use the dynamic equivalent, not the
literal), you all seem like friends. What could be better?
Dr. Theodore "Ted" Mann
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On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:18:42 -0500 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
>Dear B-Greekers:
>
>Three weeks ago, on August 22, Edward Hobbs announced his retirement
>as
>Co-chair of B-Greek. Although Jonathan and I knew that Edward intended
>to
>retire before the Fall term started up this year at Wellesley, we were
>nevertheless caught "off-guard" by Edward's announcement that Sunday,
>and
>although several of us were able to give some expression to our
>feelings of
>gratitude for the leadership provided by Edward to this list even
>before he
>was officially named as Chair by David Marotta (founder and list-owner
>of
>B-Greek during the long years during which it was housed at the
>University
>of Virginia from 1992 into June of 1998), Jonathan as the current
>list-owner and I as the other co-chair both felt that the announcement
>that
>Carlton Winbery has agreed to step into the slot vacated by Edward was
>all
>too haphazard and reflected inadequately the measure of our
>appreciation of
>Carlton both as a scholar and as an effective teacher, advisor, and
>counselor who is eminently worthy to assume this new leadership role.
>I
>have said before and can only repeat that I am deeply gratified to
>have a
>man of Carlton's wisdom and warm humanity share this "hot seat" with
>me.
>For these reasons I want to take this occasion to share with the list
>some
>background and facts about Carlton that have come to me primarily
>through
>the good graces of Bill Warren (WFWarren at aol.com), now Landrum P.
>Leavell,
>II, Professor of New Testament and Greek and Director of the Center
>for New
>Testament Textual Studies at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary,
>but
>more to the point for our purposes, a student under and a colleague
>with
>Carlton for many years at that institution. To avoid the risk of
>distorting
>anything that Bill has said, I shall take the liberty of citing him
>directly (I did not seek your permission for this, Bill, but I trust
>you
>will allow me to transmit your vision in your own words):
>
> "Carlton, a graduate of Louisiana College, is from central
>Louisiana near Winnfield (a small town named "Olla"). He finished
>both his
>B.D./M.Div. and Th.D. at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary in
>the
>early 70's (Th.D. =
>'71, if I recall correctly), studying under Jim Brooks, who currently
>teaches
>at Bethel Seminary. Following graduation, Carlton went to Charleston
>Southern University (Baptist College of Charleston at that time) to
>teach in
>the religion department, then moved to New Orleans Baptist Theological
>Seminary in 1976, where he taught for 13 years before returning to his
>alma
>mater in 1989 as chair of the religion department at Louisiana
>College, where
>he has now taught for 10 years. While at NOBTS, he co-authored his
>two best
>known works on syntax and morphology with Jim Brooks. Also, he spent
>a
>sabbatical studying at Oxford as well as one (from Louisiana College)
>working
>on the collation of Greek minuscule manuscripts for the IGNTP. He has
>authored numerous articles on a wide variety of New Testament topics,
>traveled extensively in the Middle East, and has contributed to
>several
>publications for use in local churches. He has been active in church
>life,
>preaching (supply and interim-pastor) and teaching on a regular basis
>throughout his teaching career. His family life includes his wife
>(only one
>marriage), two sons by that marriage, a long-term foster daughter who
>was
>later adopted, and an adopted Vietnamese son.
>
> "On a more personal note, Carlton has always been a gentleman
>and
>person of highest integrity and morals. I can think of few examples
>of a
>more
>Christ-like character in everyday life (I'm prejudiced, having taken
>more
>courses in my seminary career under Carlton than any other professor
>and
>having had the privilege of writing my dissertation under his
>tutelage, but
>others who studied under him have shared like esteem for him). His
>first
>love in academics has always been Greek. I remember one of his
>favorite
>stories about his first knowledge of Sakae Kubo's publication of the
>Reader's
>Lexicon. Carlton was in the quadrangle at NOBTS and a fellow doctoral
>student called to him from across the way as to whether or not he had
>gotten
>his Sakae Kubo or not. Carlton had no idea of what the student meant,
>thinking some bone joint or such was in mind. He still gets a
>delightful
>look on his face when he relates his joy at having found that a new
>Greek
>tool had been published and he did not have a bone problem or need
>another
>vacination from the campus clinic.
>
> "On another occasion, Carlton and three other faculty members
>were
>at the local donut shop across from the seminary campus engaged in hot
>competition
>on the pac-man machine. They became so absorbed in the competition
>that they
>played through the class time of one of the faculty members.
>
> "For doctoral students, Carlton was both an encourager and one
>who
>compelled us to, as he would so often express it, "give it your best
>shot."
>He
>engendered an atmosphere of excellence, yet often was our first resort
>for
>encouragement as well.
>I've never seen Carlton falter on a word or grammatical location when
>translating the Greek New Testament.
>
> "And Carlton is quite a fisherman as well. He still relishes
>an
>opportunity to go fishing. Of course, how could a true Louisianian
>not
>like fishing?"
>
>To what Bill Warren has shared with us let me add some bibliographical
>details; many B-Greekers will have used one or the other of the two
>major
>Biblical Greek reference works authored by Carlton along with James
>Brooks;
>those who have not may procure them at CBD or at many seminary
>bookstores
>or order them from Amazon Books; here are the URLs at Amazon:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819104736/qid=937740600/sr=1-3/0
02-1
>524847-8891611 (Syntax of New Testament Greek; n.b.: be careful about
>the
>word-wrap if you want to click on this URL to go directly through your
>browser to Amazon);
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0819194913/qid=937740404/sr=1-2/0
02-1
>524847-8891611 (A Morphology of New Testament Greek : A Review and
>Reference Grammar--watch the word-wrap on the URL);
>
>There's also a transcript of an interview with Carlton at the Amazon
>site:
>
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/show-interview/w-c-inberyarltonl/002-1
5248
>47-8891611 (Amazon.com talks to Carlton L. Winbery --watch the
>word-wrap on
>the URL).
>
>In conclusion, I want to reiterate something that Jonathan and I have
>both
>mentioned before. There are two essential qualifications for the
>co-chair
>of B-Greek, about which neither David Marotta nor Edward Hobbs nor
>Jonathan
>nor I have ever wavered: (1) the co-chair ought to be eminently
>qualified
>in command of Biblical Greek grammar, and (2) the co-chair must have
>great
>reserves of patience, tact, and wisdom to confront the unpredictable
>challenges arising on a discussion list whose members come from such
>wide-ranging and often opposed faith-commitments and are capable, even
>without intending to do so, of igniting furious flame-wars over their
>opposed perceptions and perspectives on what is true and essential to
>human
>salvation. In both these respects Carlton is by far my superior: (1)
>While
>I think I know classical Greek pretty well, I may often enough make an
>unjustified assumption that what is true of classical Greek continues
>to be
>true in Biblical Koine--Carlton would know better, and I have, on more
>than
>one occasion, been very politely corrected by Carlton, for which I am
>grateful; and (2) My wisdom and patience are both exhaustible, which
>fact
>has been demonstrated on more than one regrettable occasion. Let me
>note
>that this can sometimes get difficult, and we don't expect ourselves
>to be
>more than human in dealing with human beings; nevertheless, Carlton is
>considerably more patient and wise than I and we on the B-Greek staff
>have
>had many occasions hitherto to be grateful for his advice.
>
>I hope this may serve as a better introduction to our new Chair, and
>as a
>well-deserved fanfare for a TRUE "scholar and a gentleman."
>
>P.S. My thanks again to Bill Warren for graciously sharing these
>deeper
>insights into Carlton's personal and scholarly background.
>
>Carl W. Conrad
>Co-Chair, B-Greek List
>Department of Classics, Washington University
>One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018
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