[B-Greek] Martin Culy: I, II, III John: A Handbook on the Greek Text

Adrian Fung adrianf70 at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 4 20:04:18 EST 2004


Hi Carl,

May I know when this Handbook be available to order?

Regards,
Adrian Fung
Self-learner on Biblical Greek
Hong Kong


--- "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
wrote:

> 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
> WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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