[B-Greek] Martin Culy: I, II, III John: A Handbook on the Greek Text
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Nov 4 09:52:32 EST 2004
As I indicated earlier in response to an enquiry on the publication of this
book, I did proof a late version of this book; now that I have the final
product in hand, I'd like to commend it as a model of what a help with the
Greek text ought to be; of course I'm gratified to see the views that I and
others have expressed about "deponency" and the true middle sense of
middle-only lemmata and the middle-passive ambivalence of -QH- forms
actually affect the parsing. But beyond that the parsing seems to me to be
well-explained in the introductory material and that interpretive
categorization of verb-tenses and case-usage is formulated in terms of
contextual factors and implications for translation rather than in terms of
inherent features of the verb-tenses and the cases. Moreover, while the
immediate context and the larger context of the individual letters is taken
into account in explaining how the Greek text shoudl be understood, the
sorts of boundaries that we endeavor to sustain on B-Greek--boundaries
between (a) elucidating what and how the Greek text may be legitimately
understood and (b) drawing forth the theological implications of the text
in question--are generally properly observed. This is, of course, not a
blanket endorsement--there are, of course, items discussed where my
judgment would be a different one from what is set forth in Culy's work.
Yet it seems to me that many of the questions which get asked repeatedly on
B-Greek about texts in 1 John are nicely discussed and usually resolved
satisfactorily in this book.
At 11:42 AM -0600 10/18/04, Martin Culy wrote:
>It has been encouraging to see the interest in 1, 2, 3 John: A Handbook on
>the Greek Text. Let me clarify where things stand. The book is in the
>warehouse and is ready to ship. I received my own copies last week. There
>will be the inevitable lag between when a book comes off the press and when
>it is available from distributors, but it should not be long. For those of
>you who attend ETS/EPS or AAR/SBL, the book will be available there.
>
>B-Greek members may also be interested to know that there are plans to do
>handbooks on the rest of the NT.
>
>
>Martin Culy
>Associate Professor of New Testament and Greek
>Briercrest College and Seminary
>510 College Drive
>Caronport, SK S0H 0S0
>Phone: (306) 756-3207
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
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