[B-Greek] Wallace or Porter?

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 28 13:41:30 EDT 2005


Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> It would be an amusing exercise to read A.K.M.
Adam's 
> NT Greek Intro in light of this issue.

Please eludidate. Do you mean the "Introduction" to
A.K.M. Adam's book A Grammar for New Testament Greek?
Or do you mean the book itself (i.e., the book is an
"introductory" Greek grammar)?

And, why do you pick Adam's book, and what does he
have to say vis-a-vis the Wallace vs. Porter approach?

> Wallace on the other hand uses the language of 
> presence. He keeps talking about the "nature" of the

> participle. The language of presence is 
> conspicuously absent from the mainstream of 
> contemporary linguistics. Wallace's book is 
> saturated with modernist and pre-modern concepts 
> which makes it difficult to take seriously unless 
> the reader is committed to the same framework.

Can you explain "the language of presence" a bit more?
Would my own reading of Wallace and Porter (I have
Wallace and Porter's Idiom book) of the
chapters/sections you refer to clarify for me the
point you are making?

Eric S. Weiss



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