[B-Greek] Re: Caragounis vs. Porter

R Yochanan Bitan Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Tue Apr 5 13:59:59 EDT 2005


Shalom Bogdan,

I would be happy to see the comments from Caragounis' book and comment
on them. Unfortunately, the $150 price stopped me from ordering the
book at SBL. If you would be able to make a PDF copy of the relevant
pages (not the whole book!, only the relevant pages for academic
discussion) you could email it to me. Language of book is not a
problem.

 The article you mentioned (Decker "Objections to Porter's...,?)
appears to be by a supporter of Porter, rather than true objections to
Porter's "pure aspect theory". 
We get "pure aspect" people all the time in Hebrew studies (since
beginning grammar books tend start there), who are surprised to find
out that their theories mispredict real ancient use. But that is
Hebrew, not Greek. 

I would imagine that Caragounis will make real objections to Porter.
Greek is a real language for Caragounis, and massive use of a language
always helps in clarifying idealistic proposals. (If this last point
were not true, then children couldn't learn languages.)
ERRWSO

Blessings
Randall Buth

Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:09:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bogdan Bucur <lenesen at yahoo.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] Caragounis vs Porter
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Hello there,

Can anyone speak to the arguments against Porter's
Non-Temporal View of the Verb in the recent book by
Chrys Caragounis (The development of Greek and the New
Testament, Mohr Siebeck, 2004)?  I found an article
online, entitled "Objections to Porter's Non-Temporal
View of the Verb"; unfortunately, it was written four
years ago, before Caragounis' book came out.

Thanks,
Bogdan Bucur  


Randall Buth, PhD
Director, Biblical Language Center
www.biblicalulpan.org
and Director, Biblical Studies in Israel
Hebrew University, Rothberg International School
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il






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