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

Carl W.Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Dec 18 13:16:17 EST 2006


The announcement below which I posted to the list five days ago was  
intended to announce Jan Hoogland's "Access to the Greek NT" to list- 
members in a statement more straightforward and objective than the  
advertisement by Timothy Friberg which we have today posted as  
originally written. I certainly hoped and continue to hope that  
interested list-members may proceed to request the document in  
question and judge it for themselves, as I have myself done. To the  
extent that my own formulation of the announcement is a  
misrepresentation of the booklet, I sincerely apologize.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)


> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
> Date: December 15, 2006 10:00:09 AM EST
> To: B-Greek B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Cc: HooglandJan <hoogland at hawaii.rr.com>, FribergTimothy  
> <trfriberg at mailit.org>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Jan Hoogland’s “Access to the Greek NT”
>
> 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





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