Smyth's grammar

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 22 06:02:05 EDT 2002


At 6:49 PM -0400 8/21/02, Richard Ghilardi wrote:
>Carl wrote:
>
><< What I am really looking forward to and
>hope to live long enough yet to see in print is the new Hellenistic Greek
>Grammar currently in preparation under the chairmanship of Darryl Schmidt
>and sponsored by the Westar Institute; this is an enterprise promoted by
>Robert Funk, the original English translator of the Blass-Debrunner
>German
>classic NT Greek grammar that we designate as BDF (Blass-Debrunner-Funk).
>I am hoping that this Hellenistic Grammar, when it appears, will
>encompass a much broader range of Hellenistic literature than the NT and
>patristic
>writers alone and will therefore better relate NT Greek usage to the
>Greek
>usage of non-Biblical authors of the era. >>
>
>Carl, I know that you view this forthcoming grammar as a great
>desideratum, but have you considered the merits of this text:
>
>"Greek: A Course in Classical & Post-Classical Greek Grammar from
>Original Texts" by Gunther Zuntz and Stanley E. Porter
>ISBN: 1850753415
>Publisher: Sheffield Academic Press, Limited
>Publish Date: 11/01/1994
>Binding: Hardcover , 1152 pages
>List Price: 103.49 (at CBD)
>
>If you have considered its merits (or demerits), will you tell us all
>about them?

No, I didn't know about this--it does look interesting. I gather from the
description, however, that it is fundamentally a textbook (like Funk's own
long-out-of-print _A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek_),
whereas the Schmidt-edited book is a reference grammar on the scale of BDF.
I would like to see the Zuntz-Porter textbook; I'll check it out, thanks
for calling my attention to it.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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