[B-Greek] Fanning's book on aspect

bgreek at ntresources.com bgreek at ntresources.com
Fri Mar 7 15:47:23 EST 2003


Thanks to someone here (don't remember whom), I can now verify that
Fanning's *Verbal Aspect in NT Greek* (Oxford, 1990) *is* once again
available through print on demand from the publisher. The best price I've
found ($56.40 + ship) is at this URL:

http://www.ecampus.com/bk_detail.asp?isbn=0198267290

The OUP UK site lists this at http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-826729-0 -- but
for £57.50 (which by my conversion, = $92.10), and OUP US listing is for
$125.00. Perhaps ecampus just changed the '£' to '$'! Or perhaps they have a
deal for digital reprints with OUP that does enable them to give a 40%
discount...

It is identical with the original except for the back of the title page
which lists it as a 2002 reprint and adds, "This book has been printed
digitally and produced in a standard specification in order to ensure its
continuing availability."

It is a cheaper cover (though still hardback) and binding. The text is also
not as sharp as I remember the original to have been--the Greek text
particularly but also the standard text font has numerous "drop outs" in the
thin strokes. There is a fair bit of variation in this, however. Our library
purchased a second copy and it is much better print quality than the one I
received today. The text is darker and sharper with fewer drop outs. (The
font selected was quite nice in the original edition (it was typeset in
Greece), but it was obviously not designed with this repro format in mind!)
I'd guess that the digital master for this reprint was scanned from a
printed copy rather than output from a digital typesetting file. 

This book isn't for everyone (not even everyone on this list), but for those
seriously interested in pursuing verbal aspect, it is one of the two key
works that must be addressed. (The other one is Porter's massive tome,
*Verbal Aspect in the Greek of the NT.*)

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