[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
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