[B-Greek] learning greek KATA english

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Jun 12 20:02:47 EDT 2007


On Jun 12, 2007, at 7:38 PM, frjsilver at optonline.net wrote:

> Dear Friends --
>
> BTW:  Who is Funk?  That's not a very Greek-sounding name....

To Biblical Greek people Robert W. "Bob" Funk is the "F" of BDF, who  
brought the classic German NT Grammar of Blass and Debrunner into  
English. To many who know him in no other guise, he was the the  
founder and sponsor of Westar Institute and the noted or notorious  
(depending upon your viewpoint) Jesus Seminar. For the past couple of  
years several B-Greek members have worked on bringing the long out-of- 
print 1977 edition of his "Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of  
Hellenistic Greek" into a web-worthy version. Unless I am mistaken,  
he was also the original founder of the Society of Biblical  
Literature (SBL). He and Westar Institute had also sponsored a  
project to prepare a new large-scale grammar of Hellenistic Greek, a  
project that unfortunately did not come to its much desired fruition.  
He died in September of 2005.

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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