[B-Greek] Funk's Grammar

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Oct 26 08:48:16 EDT 2006


On Oct 25, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Arthur King wrote:

> The text of Volumes I and II of Funk's "A Beginning-Intermediate  
> Grammar of Hellenistic Greek" is available at  http:// 
> www.nauman.org/funk-bighg/

It might be added that several of the appendices of Volume III are  
there. While the work is not QUITE complete, it is at a point now  
that it is definitely worth pointing to as a reference when some of  
our most frequent kinds of queries about grammatical structure are  
posted. Although the edition accessible at this site dates to 1977, I  
must say that, for my part, I haven't seen introductory or  
intermediate textbook or grammar for Koine Greek that is better (and  
I acknowledge that there are some useful ones). I'm sorry that Bob  
Funk didn't survive to see this at this stage of completion: I think  
that many may profit from it -- as they continue to do from his  
translation of the Blass-Debrunner NT grammar commonly referenced as  
"BDF" -- who have less regard for what he may have considered his  
more valuable achievements.

I want to reiterate my own thanks to Ken Penner who directed it and  
to all those who have participated in this project (it actually  
originated here among B-Greekers who share a sense of the worth of  
this monumental and still-fresh and refreshing Biblical Greek  
pedagogical instrument.

One device that might make the compiled work more useful for  
reference would be a collapsible version of the Table of Contents  
(comparable to that for Smyth's grammar at the Perseus site); this  
would be a great help for those who want to examine, for example, the  
discussion of "The Participle in Nominal Word Clusters" (http:// 
www.nauman.org/funk-bighg/lesson-53.html) without scrolling through  
the entire page of introductory materials from Volume I. I don't  
think this would be a tremendous undertaking -- I might take a stab  
at it myself.

But even though it is not QUITE complete, I just have to lift up my  
electronic voice and shout: "HIP HIP, HOO-RAYYYYYYYYYYY!"

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/





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