[B-Greek] Funk's Grammar in a single PDF file?

Ken Penner ken.penner at acadiau.ca
Tue Apr 8 15:33:04 EDT 2008


I applaud your efforts, but unless some agreement of which I am unaware has negotiated with Bob Funk's widow at Polebridge Press, Funk's BIGHG is NOT "publicly available" for legal distribution.
Therefore although it is a great resource, I would not recommend including it on this CD-ROM. 

Ken M. Penner, Ph.D.
Former coordinator, Funk's Grammar Digitization Project
Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic vocabulary memorization software: 
http://purl.org/net/kmpenner/flash

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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of John 
> M. Linebarger
> Sent: April 8, 2008 3:50 PM
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [B-Greek] Funk's Grammar in a single PDF file?
> 
> Charein!  I am putting together a CD-ROM of teaching material 
> for a first year Biblical Greek course based on Mounce's 
> Basics of Biblical Greek.  I have been assembling it over the 
> last year as I have been teaching a first year Greek class at 
> our church.  The goal of the CD-ROM is to contain publicly 
> available Greek teaching and reference materials -- as well 
> as software, fonts and audio files -- for use not only in 
> teaching Greek in North America, but especially for teaching 
> Biblical Greek in the developing world, where students not 
> only do not have access to reference material, they don't 
> have the room to store books.   In fact, my mentor in the 
> Biblical Languages is using the CD-ROM for his Biblical 
> Languages classes in China.  Currently, the CD-ROM is 
> jam-packed and almost at capacity (698 MB).
> 
> What I'd like to be able to do is include a PDF copy of 
> Funk's great "Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic 
> Greek" on the CD-ROM.  I can almost do so by downloading the 
> 75 PDFs from the B-Greek site 
> (http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/) and 
> stitching them together.  However, the PDFs only cover 
> volumes 1 and 2.  Might it be possible to post the TIF image 
> files for the pages of volume 3, so that I can make PDFs from 
> them as well and ultimately create a single PDF file that 
> contains the *entire* contents of Funk's grammar?  It would 
> make a great addition to the CD-ROM, and a wonderful 
> reference resource.  I'd be happy to do the work of creating 
> the PDF file and submitting it back to the B-Greek site if 
> only the TIF files for volume 3 could be created and posted 
> to the site.  I simply do not have access to a copy of Funk's 
> grammar (it is incredibly difficult to find, even via 
> Interlibrary Loan), or I would do it myself.
> 
> Many thanks!  Blessings!
> 
> John M. Linebarger, PhD
> Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
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