[B-Greek] Question about a book A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jun 22 16:43:38 EDT 2004


The comments offered regarding anxiety over potential indoctrination
through a Biblical Greek reference work prepared by someone outside one's
own orthodoxy have all been thus far on one side--and have all affirmed
that it's not difficult to recognize and ignore assertions in such a
reference work that represent a doctrinal agenda rather than a standard
aspect of grammar. It might be noted that some have similarly objected to
the injection of doctrinal material into Mouce's Greek primer, to which it
has been responded that one can easily enough ignore those "Exegetical
Insights" segments. What I'd like to think this illustrates is that there
is some validity to the principle underlying B-Greek discussion parameters:
that we can ordinarily--even if not always--distinguish between doctrinal
matters and grammatical (syntactical, lexicographical, morphological)
matters and doctrinal matters so as to focus our discussion on those
grammatical features of the language or of a Biblical text upon which we
can hope to find common ground for discussion, even when we differ, perhaps
profoundly, in our doctrinal stances.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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