[B-Greek] Jan Hoogland’s “Access to the Greek NT”

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Dec 15 10:00:09 EST 2006


We have been asked to make the following announcement:

Jan Hoogland has prepared a 117-page document offering a prescription  
for quicker access to Biblical Greek texts to the amateur who cannot  
afford the time to master the language in the standard way. He  
insists that a serious student of the GNT can escape from the  
misleading and questionable interpretations suggested by translations  
by focusing upon what he calls “transformations” of the Greek words  
and inflected forms in the Biblical text — exact equivalents of the  
Greek word-forms aligned beneath the individual Greek words in the  
manner of an interlinear translation. Obviously some instruction in  
the mechanics of the Biblical Greek language is essential, and of  
this Hoogland offers a minimalist introduction with pointers to  
resources that can be accessed readily and without excessive  
expenditure of time or effort: there are individual chapters on noun  
cases, on verb tenses and voice (but not on moods) and on sentence- 
structure. All this is illustrated with patterned short segments of  
text from the GNT, each including the Greek text, the English  
“transformations” of Greek word-forms aligned beneath the word- 
forms,  one standard English translation, and finally a paragraph  
explaining how the “transformation” clarifies the meaning and — for  
the adequately prepared student — corrects the misleading and  
erroneous representation of the Greek text in the translation.

The text in all formats is copyrighted by Jan Hoogland, 2006. As long  
as you do not change the content of the text or profit by it in any  
financial way, you may share copies of the same with the author's  
implicit blessing. This book is part of a larger work that is planned  
ultimately to become the "Transformation of the Greek New Testament."  
Though that goal is several years away, the author invites you to get  
a headstart on the way to building your own Greek channel to the mind  
by obtaining your own personal copy of this intermediate version today.

Those who wish to obtain a copy of Jan Hoogland’s booklet as an  
attached zipped Word file, as a photocopy, or even on a CD-ROM,  
should write directly to the author at hoogland at hawaii.rr.com.  
Include all appropriate address information.


Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





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