[B-Greek] Funk's Beginning-Intermediate grammar
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Thu May 27 12:14:46 EDT 2004
It appears that many of us are agreed that Robert Funk's
_Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek_ is too good to remain
out-of-print (and in that ugly Courier font).
My understanding (please correct any misinformation) is that:
Copyright is held by Westar Institute (that is, Bob Funk himself, not SBL).
Polebridge Press (part of Westar Institute, contact Charlene Matejovsky) is
willing to make the grammar freely accessible online in digitized (Unicode)
form.
Digitizing the text is too large an effort for any one organization or
individual to take on (SBL and Westar do not have the resources to commit at
this point).
If this understanding is correct (who can confirm it? Carl?), it seems that
what we need is a volunteer team to scan and OCR and proofread and mark up
the 3 volumes (plus the workbook), and provide the resulting HTML to
Polebridge.
Is any effort already underway in this regard? If so, whom can we contact to
volunteer? I have a copy and a scanner with OCR.
If not, it appears that we would need someone to coordinate the effort, and
find out who is willing to volunteer their resources for at least one of:
Scanning the grammar,
OCRing the scans,
Proofreading the OCR output,
(Bypassing scans and OCR) typing the text,
Marking up the text for navigation with HTML.
Then we could break up the effort and assign certain pages and tasks to the
volunteers, appropriate to their resources.
I'd love to see movement on this.
Ken Penner, M.C.S. (Biblical Languages, Greek Focus), M.A. (Hebrew Poetry)
Ph.D. (cand.), McMaster University
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
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> Again, Funk's entire presentation on the verb is excellent.
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