Fanning and Porter
Harry W. Jones
hwjones2 at earthlink.net
Thu Dec 5 09:15:00 EST 2002
Another thing that I have noticed is that everyone that mentions Porter or
Fanning seems to come down on Porter's side rather than on Fanning's. I was
wondering why that was too.
Harry Jones
The fool has said in his
heart,there is no God. Ps. 14:1
But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their
strength. They shall run
and not be weary. And they
shall walk and not faint. Isa. 40:39
> [Original Message]
> From: Brian Swedburg <brian at discoveryhills.org>
> To: Harry W. Jones <hwjones2 at earthlink.net>
> Date: 12/4/02 9:09:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [b-greek] Re: Fanning and Porter
>
> on 12/4/02 9:35 PM, Harry W. Jones at hwjones2 at earthlink.net wrote:
>
> >
> > I was hoping someone could explain to me what Fanning and Porter taught
> > about the verbal aspect.
> >
> > Harry Jones
> >
> > The fool has said in his
> > heart,there is no God. Ps. 14:1
> >
> > But they that wait upon the
> > Lord shall renew their
> > strength. They shall run
> > and not be weary. And they
> > shall walk and not faint. Isa. 40:39
> >
> >
> >
> >> [Original Message]
> >> From: Brian Swedburg <brian at discoveryhills.org>
> >> To: Biblical Greek <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>; Harry W. Jones
> > <hwjones2 at earthlink.net>
> >> Date: 12/4/02 5:20:52 PM
> >> Subject: Re: [b-greek] Fanning and Porter
> >>
> >> on 12/4/02 6:18 PM, Harry W. Jones at hwjones2 at earthlink.net wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Does anybody know what the differences are between Fanning and
Porter? I
> >>> don't have their book and can't afford to buy them.
> >>>
> >>> God Bless,
> >>> Harry Jones
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> The fool has said in his
> >>> heart,there is no God. Ps. 14:1
> >>>
> >>> But they that wait upon the
> >>> Lord shall renew their
> >>> strength. They shall run
> >>> and not be weary. And they
> >>> shall walk and not faint. Isa. 40:39
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >> Greetings Harry and List,
> >> Th idea of summarizing the differences, in brief, is beyond my
> >> imagination! Perhaps someone else on the list can, and I suppose
someone
> >> will come up with a great web site for us to go to. But... I do have a
> > copy
> >> of JSNTS 80 (The Journal for the Study of New Testament) titled
"Biblical
> >> Greek Language and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research", in
> >> which Porter and Fanning summarize their positions, and other scholars
> >> critique their views. I am sure you could get a copy from Sheffield
> >> Academic Press. Reading Porter, though expensive, and for a little
> > Greeker
> >> challenging, is well worth the stretch.
> >> Does anybody know where to get a copy of Fanning's book?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Brian P. Swedburg
> >> Student, etc...
> >
> >
> >
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> In obersimplified brief, Porter says that time is not a component of the
> morphological meaning of the tenses in Greek, while Fanning says it is,
> though I cannot remember what his angle was. According to Porter, it is
the
> combination of syntactical elements the verb is set in which determine its
> time, not the tense forms in the Greek.
>
> Again, the book I spoke of is moderated by D.A. Carson and can help in the
> synthesis of these views.
>
> Brian Swedburg
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