Black's and Dobson's introductions are ... the same?
One of the McKays
musicke at ozemail.com.au
Sun Jun 30 04:16:35 EDT 2002
I understand that there is stuff in Black that is close to Ward Powers Learn
To Read the Greek NT, too. [And Black was written after Powers.]
Which reminds me of:
If Shirley Temple Black
married
Tyrone Power
she'd be Shirley Temple Black Power
which probably doesn't mean a thing, now!
David McKay
musicke at ozemail.com.au
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~musicke
> The section "From Author to Reader" (pp. xi-xii) of LEARN TO READ NEW
> TESTAMENT GREEK - Expanded Edition (1994) by David Alan Black, Broadman
> & Holman, and the section "Introduction" of LEARN NEW TESTAMENT GREEK -
> Second Edition (1993) by John H. Dobson, Baker, are ... almost
> word-for-word or phrase-for-phrase identical in MANY places, even to
> the point where they both say "after SEVENTEEN [short] lessons you will
> begin/start reading selected passages from the [Greek] New Testament,
> and by the end of the course you will be able to read much of the New
> Testament without constant reference to a dictionary."
>
> So ... what's up here? Neither book credits the other author, as far as
> I can see. I don't have the first edition of either book to see how
> these sections read in those editions. I also don't have Black's or
> Dobson's e-mail address to ask them about this.
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