[B-Greek] Blass-Debrunner-Funk revision?
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri May 27 22:31:14 EDT 2005
On Friday, May 27, 2005, at 10:28PM, Bryan Cox <b_coxus at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Dr. Daniel Wallace states the following in an
>amazon.com review of the Blass-Debrunner-Funk Greek
>Grammar (dated June 26, 2000): "BDF is still the
>standard Greek grammar of the New Testament even after
>four decades. It is in the process of being revised
>(by a revision committee of eight members), but the
>revision will take several more years to complete. We
>felt it needed revision because BDF presupposes that
>the average reader has had much exposure to classical
>Greek prior to working in the New Testament."
>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0226271102/qid=1117242828/sr=8-1/ref=pd_csp_1/104-0472342-8276767?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
>Does anyone know how far along this revision is after
>5 years?
I think the project is in limbo at this time; we've discussed it from time to time, but the
last account that I received is that the project came to a standstill and its resumption is
questionable for the present and near future.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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