[B-Greek] JETS article on Greek Verb Tenses (Picirilli)
Eric Weiss
papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 25 13:12:22 EDT 2005
Yesterday I received my copy of the September 2005 (Vol 48, No 3) issue of JETS (Journal of
the EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY) - mine was a late renewal - and there is a 23-
page article (beginning on page 533) by Robert E. Picirilli, professor emeritus Free Will Baptist
Bible College (Greek teacher for nearly 50 years), entitled "The Meaning of the Tenses in New
Testament Greek: Where Are We?" He interacts with Porter, Fanning, Carson, Wallace,
McKay and Decker.
"The world of scholarship about the Greek verb is in ferment, and the outcome promises to
have a significant effect for all of us who interpret the NT. Since about 1900 there has been a
paradigm shift in understanding the Greek tenses, and, as George Guthrie has observed on
this subject, 'We do not care for people messing with our paradigms.' Even so, we are being
asked to reexamine some strongly-entrenched assumptions about how we understand and
exegete the Greek verb. My purpose in this paper is to provide an introduction to the new
paradigm, called 'verbal aspect' theory, and to survey the issues that are involved and in need
of resolution." <snip>
This might be of interest to several on this list.
Eric S. Weiss
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