[B-Greek] Machen's NT Greek for Beginners

Raymond Regalado fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Feb 20 01:14:56 EST 2004


On 2004.2.20, at 01:53  PM, Barry wrote:

> I taught out of Machen for 4 years at Westminster (the seminary that 
> Machen
> helped to start, so his grammar was nearly canonical), and felt 
> exactly the
> same, particularly about the sentences.

I've always wondered about the "status" of Machen's grammar at WTS.  I 
thought, if there's anywhere that people would favor Machen's approach, 
that would be at WTS...  Anyway, I also have S.M. Baugh's Greek Primer. 
  Isn't Professor Baugh the "successor" of Machen at WTS?  I wonder if 
they use his primer now, in place of Machen's text.  At any rate, I've 
carefully studied Baugh's primer up to the 12th chapter, and I think I 
like some aspects of it, e.g. the brevity of his explanations, the way 
he separates "paradigms for memorization" and "paradigms for 
recognition"; the exercises are more "systematic", and I like the fact 
that it has answer keys to the exercises in the same volume, etc.  In 
certain ways Baugh seems to me to be better than Mounce, but It does 
seem to have an inordinate share of typos, and again the 12 inches by 
10 inches or so format makes it unwieldy to read in the train...;-)

Best Regards,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan




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