[B-Greek] Chrys C. Caragounis' Book on the Development of Greek
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Fri Dec 21 13:09:38 EST 2007
Carl's summary is very good. I am still in the process of reading
through it, and have been for about 9 months now :) There are some
things that Caragounis says which are very good. There are other parts
of his argument that are totally full of holes--the problem is knowing
which are which :)
Although I am a bookseller and get paid to sell books, I would only
recommend the book to people who know Greek (not just Koine) well and
can check out his voluminous references. The data in them not
infrequently contradict the point that Caragounis is making.
You can see Rod Decker's comments and some links here (including two
previous posts by Carl):
http://www.ntresources.com/blurb.htm
I wish Moises Silva's review were online in a free section, but as far
as I know, it is not.
My own brief comments on one particular claim are here:
http://tinyurl.com/yurorf
Or, full URL:
http://anebooks.blogspot.com/2007/05/is-jesus-vine-or-vineyard.html
I just noticed that Caragounis has responded to my comments on his site.
I am flattered, although I suspect he didn't intend it that way :)
http://www.lsn.se/2509/Debate.htm, right below his attack on Carl.
HTH,
James
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2007 12:39 PM
> To: Hugh Donohoe Jr.
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Chrys C. Caragounis' Book on the
> Development of Greek
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> On Friday, December 21, 2007, at 12:22PM, "Hugh Donohoe Jr."
> <justusjcmylord at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >I'm new to this forum, so there is a likelyhood I'll
> >bring up a topic that is hackneyed. I was curious
> >though, to know if anyone found the main premise of
> >Caragounis' work to be cogent? And if so, has it
> >impacted your study of New Testament Greek?
>
> Caragounis' book is interesting and valuable in many ways,
> but it should probably be read
> with some caution. What's clearly demonstrated is its major
> proposition, that NT Greek needs
> to be understood diachronically -- i.e. from a perspective of
> its prior and later history, and not
> just synchronically, as some linguists and pedagogues like to
> present it (as being essentially
> uniform in the morphology and syntactic usage and
> lexicography used by major writers of
> the NT era. There are some matters here and there in the book
> that are at least open to
> question, including the assertion that Greek was already
> being pronounced in the classical
> era much as it is by Greek-speakers today. I think there's
> much interesting and valuable
> material about the history of the language and the place o;
> NT Greek within that history.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
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