[B-Greek] A.E. Knoch (was Re: JETS article on Greek Verb Tenses)
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Wed Oct 26 14:33:30 EDT 2005
I don't think it ought to be assumed that the authority of A.E. Knoch
weighs very heavily in scholarly discussions of the aorist. Some
might argue that it should, but I don't think it does.
On Oct 26, 2005, at 1:18 PM, Rick Farwell wrote:
>> 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.
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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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Carl W. Conrad
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