[B-Greek] In Memoriam: Philip Graber

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 10 06:23:29 EDT 2003


BLEPOMEN GAR ARTI DI' ESOPTROU EN AINIGMATI, TOTE DE PROSWPON PROS PROSWPON.

B-Greek is, at its best, a humane community of authentic human beings
engaged in conersation about the text of the Greek Bible and the language
in which those texts have been written. Although hundreds of our
subscribers who number somewhere in the vicinity of 1200 receive list
correspondence in silence and need never identify themselves, we have
continued to insist, in accordance with demands originally made by our
first chair, Edward Hobbs, that those who post messages to the list sign
them with authentic whole names; we do not wish our correspondence with
each other to be anonymous or pseudonymous. Although very few of us have
ever been in contact with each other apart from this electronic medium, yet
those of us who have participated with any regularity have some sense of
real familiarity with each other, and since that is so, we feel the loss at
the departure of one of us.

Philip L. Graber, a list-member of B-Greek from 1994 until recently, passed
away on the morning of September 6 after a final bout with Melanoma. He
earned a Ph.D. from Emory University in 2001, his dissertation being
entitled, "Context in Text: A Systemic Functional Analysis of the Parable
of the Sower." For the past several years he had been pastor of the
Ronceverte Presbyterian Church in Ronceverte, West Virginia. Philip was one
of the relatively few B-Greekers trained in Linguistics; I always learned
much from his posts and found particularly enlightening a number of
contributions to understanding difficult passages in the gospel of Matthew.
It grieves me to report his passing, but I thought it should be reported to
members of the list who may have known Philip.
-- 

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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