[B-Greek] JETS article on Greek Verb Tenses

Rick Farwell thedifferentiator at yahoo.com
Wed Oct 26 13:18:07 EDT 2005



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> 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.
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> "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>
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> Eric S. Weiss
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I remember 25 years ago coming across a pamphlet by A.
E. Knoch on the Aorist titled "The English and Greek
indefinite."  He wrote this around 1919. He said that
the aorist should be understood as a simple present as
in "I sit" but that the present active indicative
should be "I am sitting".

I showed this to my Greek instructor, boy was that a
mistake, he didn't take to kindly to that idea, "and
who is this AEK?! And what are his credentials, etc!"
here is a link
http://www.scripture4all.org/ISA_help/articles/The_Greek_and_English_Indefinite/The_Greek_and_English_Indefinite.htm

I think A. E. Knoch and his Concordant Version have
some vindication in this.

Pastor Rick Farwell

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