[B-Greek] Commentaries: Cambridge Greek Testament:Luke

James Spinti JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Wed Dec 13 15:11:36 EST 2006


The older ICC volumes are very thorough in their treatment of the Greek
text.

At the risk of sounding like a billboard, Eisenbrauns has the two John
volumes used, and we are offering 15% off on all used books this month.
Net price: $34.00

James

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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of 
> George F Somsel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 2:34 PM
> To: john; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] [b-greek] Commentaries: Cambridge 
> Greek Testament:Luke
> 
> 
> The ICC series is still available
> 
> John, vol 1 http://tinyurl.com/y5k6ow
> John, vol 2 http://tinyurl.com/y2mz76 
> 
> or you can buy the entire set in an electronic edition
> 
> http://www.logos.com/products/details/1906
>  
> george
> gfsomsel
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: john <johneill at tiscali.co.uk>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:39:35 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] [b-greek] Commentaries: Cambridge Greek 
> Testament: Luke
> 
> 
> This is the first time I have attempted to post here.  Please 
> forgive me if I inadvertently break any netiquette rules in 
> this posting.
> 
> I am part of a small group of lay preachers currently 
> studying Luke's Gospel with the aid of Farrer's commentary on 
> Luke in the Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and 
> Colleges series.  This was originally published in 1884, but 
> my copy is from the 11th reprint in 1912.   I imagine that 
> "Schools & Colleges" in that era probably meant "Public 
> Schools" (which in England are expensive private schools, eg 
> Eton and Harrow), and "Colleges" may well have been colleges 
> of Oxford and Cambridge.
> 
> I have just been comparing it with some of the Pitt Press 
> (Cambridge University Press) editions which we used in studying 
> Latin authors for A-level and at university in the 1950s.  It 
> seems to be on a similar level, and certainly no lower.
> 
> The Introduction includes a helpful section on Hellenistic 
> Greek and its peculiarities .
> 
> The notes on each chapter begin with critical notes, eg on Luke 1.5: 
> "GUNH AUTWi. The reading of *BCDLX Gr. La. Ti. &c; 'he had a 
> wife' instead of the hH GUNH AUTOU 'his wife was'  of the Rec."
> 
> The detailed comments on individual words, phrases or verses 
> cover both grammatical points of interest or difficulty and 
> religious, historical and cultural background, and from time 
> to time comparison of the A.V. translation with other versions. 
> 
> After the commentary Farrer includes 7 "Excursus".  The 1st 
> is "On the meaning of EN TOIS TOU PATROS MOU" (Lk 2.49), the 
> 2nd compares Luke's and Matthew's genealogies of Jesus, the 
> 3rd is "On putting New (NEON) Wine into Fresh (KAINOUS) 
> Bottles" and the 4th is "On the meaning of EPIOUSION" Lk 9.3.
> 
> I hope this gives a little flavour of the commentary.  
> 
> Our group's original aim was to improve our knowledge of 
> Biblical Greek, but we are finding that the commentary also 
> gives us fresh insights into a very familiar book.  We are 
> finding it so useful that I had intended (when I could get up 
> my courage to make a posting on b-greek) to ask if anyone 
> knew of a similar commentary on John's Gospel!
> 
> Eileen England
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