R.T. France - Mark (NIGTC)

Brian McCarthy mccartbs at utrc.utc.com
Wed Sep 18 10:22:01 EDT 2002


I read through R.T. France's NIGTC on Mark and I enjoyed it thoroughly. 
Fun to read and lotsa Greek!  As a newbie to Greek I especially liked the
way he drops Greek words and phrases as naturally as you please into his
sentences;  e.g. at one point he talks about the size, construction and
seaworthiness of the PLOION... there we go, the word PLOION just entered
my working vocabulary!  (Hopefully correctly...)

Now I'm working through I. H. Marshall's NIGTC on Luke, and not finding it
nearly as enjoyable.  There's so much in it of the, uh, "form":  "Bultmann
says... therefore Bultmann is wrong" that if it were all eliminated I
think the book would be 100 pages shorter.  A 910-page anti-Bultmann pill
is no doubt a useful thing to have around the house, but not a lot of fun
to read all the way through.

But France's book I definitely recommend!

(my first post on this list!)

Brian McCarthy 
mccartbs at utrc.utc.com



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