[B-Greek] textbook on Greek Syntax
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon May 3 06:21:25 EDT 2004
At 10:07 PM -0400 5/2/04, Henry T. Carmichael wrote:
>At 1:49 PM -0700 4/30/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>
> >>I am looking for a book that helps students understand
> >>how to "connect the pieces." Since word order is very
> >>flexible, I was hoping to find a book that explains
> >>the basics (and some advanced information would be a
> >>plus) on how to connect the Greek words of a sentence
> >>together. I am reading through Mounce, and I was
> >>hoping to find a book that takes a strong syntactical
> >>approach to the Greek sentence. Any suggestions?
>
>
>Mitch, I have a feeling that you're looking for something that doesn't
>exist. There are two or three standard "intermediate" Greek grammars
>(for NT Koine) such as Wallace, Brooks and Winbery, etc.; but none of
>these will provide you with fully satisfactory solutions to each every
>question of syntax that arises during your endeavors to read and exegete
>more complex Biblical Greek texts: you'll still have to read carefully
>and sift through the text and approaches to the constructions; you'd
>probably do best to acquire more than one advanced grammar, and
>ultimately you may find that you need to have Smyth's grammar as well,
>even if that is fundamentally a grammar of Attic Greek. At best these
>grammars are TOOLS that you use to develop your own more solid grasp of
>how the language works in practice within the minds of the ancient writers.
>------------------------------
>
>Dr. Conrad et al. on B-Greek:
>I have a 180 page book entitled "A Short Syntax of New Testament Greek"
>by H. P. V. Nunn, published 1951 by Cambridge University Press. Are you
>acquainted with this volume, and if so, please give your impressions. I
>am not well-enough equipped in Koine to be able to tell if the book has
>significant value in the field of syntax, and if it would be useful to
>Mitch Larramore at his stage of study. Thank you for any help you my be
>able to give.
Actually the book is much older and out of copyright, for which reason it
is available on-line in a downloadable form:
At 3:18 PM -0500 8/19/03, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
>List members might like to know that Nunn's Short Syntax of the GNT is
>now available on line at:
>
>http://www.textkit.com/details.php?ID=141&author_id=62
>
>The source is a wonderful resource called Textkit which you'll want to
>peruse for other now public domain text books on Greek and Latin
>subjects. Go to: http://www.textkit.com
And for that very reason, I made the appendix of it, with its goodly
selection of readings appropriate to students of Koine and NT related Greek
available at my own web-site:
At 8:16 AM -0400 8/21/03, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>Inasmuch as this Appendix is a valuable item in its own right and the book
>itself is in the public domain, I have made a separate PDF file of the
>27-page Appendix, the contents of which Eric has listed above; it is 1.8 MB
>and is accessible at my web-site:
>
> http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/Docs/NunnAppendix.pdf
>
>Appendix of H.P.V. Nunn, A Short Syntax of New Testament Greek (Cambridge
>U.P., 1913); this appendix contains Greek texts of Acts 10 and of the
>following extracts from early Christian Literature: selections from The
>Didache, I Clement (to the Corinthians), Hermas, Gospel acc. to Peter, "The
>Christians In The World" (author unk.), Martyrdom of Ignatius, Martyrdom of
>Carpus, Martyrdom of Polycarp, Justin Martyr's apology, Lucian's view of
>Christians, and the Last Words of Socrates. The Greek texts are annotated
>with simple glosses and references to items in the grammar.
I don't doubt that the "Short Syntax" will be found useful by some, perhaps
many students of Koine Greek; else it would not have been made available at
the TextKit site. I haven't looked closely at the syntax, but my impression
is that it's pretty traditional.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list