[B-Greek] Blass-Debrunner-Funk
Terry and Gail Cook
cookie99 at fuse.net
Tue Aug 16 15:52:04 EDT 2005
Dr Conrad said:
"Unless one has acquired a pretty solid grounding in Greek grammar, BDF may
not be the tool of choice. It might be well to thumb through a hard copy for
several minutes before deciding whether or not an electronic BDF is really
worth one's while."
Sound advice indeed!
I have completed two years of formal Koine Greek study and I find the print
edition of this book to be almost unreadable. It is extremely difficult to
follow and IMHO is only accesible by the advanced Greek student.
Terry Cook
sDg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at ioa.com>
To: "B-Greek B-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2005 3:47 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Blass-Debrunner-Funk
> BDF is in fact an excellent resource, one that is ultimately, when
> all things are said, more useful (in my opinion, at least) than GGBB.
> I would far rather have it available on my hard drive for
> consultation alongside an on-line GNT than GGBB, which has always
> seemed to me to be focused overmuch on how one gets from the Greek
> text to some English equivalent expression. But i fear that BDF is
> not going to be of such great value to students of NT Greek who have
> no foundation in the earlier Classical Attic Greek; the original
> German Blass-Debrunner was deliberately cast that way for students
> who had been well-trained in Classical Attic in the Gymnasium or
> other sort of European secondary school. I've always had the sense
> that students of NT Greek who know only the Koine of the NT don't
> find BDF particularly useful. Unless one has acquired a pretty solid
> grounding in Greek grammar, BDF may not be the tool of choice. It
> might be well to thumb through a hard copy for several minutes before
> deciding whether or not an electronic BDF is really worth one's while.
>
> On Aug 16, 2005, at 3:29 PM, Stephen Baldwin wrote:
>
>> Hello George!
>> References to BDF abound in the textbooks...
>> Given that I already have BBG and GGBB, could you put the case for
>> spending
>> another $59.95? :-) That is, what will this book provide in
>> addition to what
>> I already have?
>> I think for the learners and the self-studiers, the amount of
>> material "out
>> there" can be a little overwhelming and whilst I am ready to spend
>> what it
>> takes to become proficient in the subject, it is difficult to
>> select those
>> books and tools that will be of maximal benefit. I think it is in
>> BBG where
>> Mounce says that the ratio of Greek Grammars to teachers is 10:9 (or
>> something like that) :-)
>>
>> Cordially
>> Steve
>>
>> Stephen Baldwin
>> stbaldwi at hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>> From: George F Somsel <gfsomsel at juno.com>
>>> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>>> Subject: [B-Greek] Blass-Debrunner-Funk
>>> Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 13:05:52 -0400
>>>
>>> BDF has been the standard for grammars of NT Greek for many years
>>> and is
>>> designed as a companion to BDAG in covering other early Christian
>>> literature in addition to the NT. It is now on prepublication at
>>> Logos
>>> for $59.95.
>>>
>>> http://www.logos.com/products/prepub/details/2431
>>>
>>> george
>>> gfsomsel
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>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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