[B-Greek] Funk's _A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek_
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Dec 17 09:49:21 EST 2003
As I have often voiced as my carefully-considered opinion on B-Greek, the
above-referenced now long-out-of-print three-volume textbook of Robert W.
Funk is a resource that should be accessible to all potential users, both
beginning students and teachers of Biblical Greek. It was an altogether new
approach to the presentation of the elements of Greek grammar and, in my
opinion, the clearest textbook presentation of ancient Greek to appear in
many decades.
I have been in touch with Dr. Funk and with Charlene Matejovsky of
Polebridge Press (at Westar Institute) about the preparation of an
electronic version of the textbook to be made available on-line either as
HTML text or as a PDF file (one or more) that could downloaded or read
on-line. It now appears that achieving such a goal is possible, provided
that the resources can be assembled.
A clean copy will be needed. I have ready to hand all three volumes of a
1977 second printing of the Second Edition; the pages are clean and could
readily be scanned, even if the binding of the paperback editions is a bit
weak. Perhaps others whom this may reach have copies also that could be
made available for scanning. Rather than scanning and publishing each page
of the original as a graphic, it would certainly be preferable to capture
the characters with the best available OCR program and formulate the
(English and Greek) text in Unicode. My question is: are there one or more
persons among the membership of either or both lists (B-Greek and Biblical
Languages) having the expertise, equipment, appropriate software, and the
readiness to commit (read "donate") the time and effort to carry out such a
project. If it should be necessary, I could and would, as a retired person,
copy out the text myself for preparation of a PDF file, but surely it would
be preferable to scan all or at least all of the English text and convert
it with an OCR program and then, if need be, type the Greek elements into
the English text thus converted.
So now I am hopeful that this news may evoke some favorable response from
members of the two lists--on-line or off!
--
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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