[B-Greek] Moulton, Turner, NT Greek Grammar
Chet Creider
creider at uwo.ca
Tue Aug 30 08:35:51 EDT 2005
Mike Matsko wrote:
> B-Greekers,
> Eisenbrauns has the 4 volumes of Moulton, Turner, et. al. "A
> Grammar of New Testament Greek" on sale for about $200, about 1/3 off
> regular price. Given one has the standard (Mounce, Black, Dodson,
> Wallace, Smythe) books, is there any value added to having this set.
> Thanks.
> You can send responses to me and I'll summarize, if you want. The
>> sale
> ends September 7, and has a bunch of other stuff on sale.
The standard reference grammars of NT Greek are Blass-Debrunner-Funk and
the Moulton series. Smyth is a grammar of Attic Greek. If you don't
have BDF, you should purchase it. As for the Moulton series, I believe
that the conventional wisdom is that the first volume is marvellous, the
second quite good (the part on derivation was written by Howard), and
the volumes on syntax and style (3 & 4, by Turner) not as good because
Turner wasn't a linguist. I don't agree and find the syntax volume
quite useful in large part because Turner quotes the work of others
extensively. I'm less familiar with the style volume (which I don't
own) but believe it fulfills its purpose to a large extent (to give
relatively superficial sketches of the "style" of the various of NT
authors). AFAIK, volume 2 remains the most detailed available reference
treatment of the morphology (both inflectional and derivational) of NT
Greek.
This said, the price tag seems pretty steep even with the discount and
you might prefer to wait for a used set to come along. I don't believe
that BDF is very expensive and would recommend that you purchase it
immediately, particularly if you have some familiarity with Attic Greek.
Chet Creider
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