[B-Greek] Porter Beginning Greek Book

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Aug 2 11:57:56 EDT 2009


On Aug 2, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Mark Lightman wrote:

> Don't know anything about it, but the title is not very
> imaginative.  I guess "essentials" and "basics" were
> already taken.  I've always thought you should just
> combine all these books into one "The Essentially Fundamental
> Basics of New Testament Greeks for Beginners."
>
> Rico's title is the most interesting so far.  He never explains it
> but has this quote on p. 288 hIVA PULWSIN EISELQWSIN
> EIS THN POLIN.  ινα πυλωσιν εισελθωσιν εις  
> την πολιν
> "...so that they might enter the city through the gates."

I guess that's PULWNES rather than PULAI. Makes sense.
>
> Does anyone know if Rico made this up or if it's from something?

Or perhaps it's from something Rico made up?
At least it's clear and intelligible. And none of that
Euclidean "No royal road" stuff.

> --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Louis Sorenson <llsorenson at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] Porter Beginning Greek Book
> To: "B-Greek List mail to all" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 8:23 AM
>
>
>
> Fundamentals of New Testament Greek  by Stanley E. Porter (Author),  
> Jeffrey T. Reed (Author), Matthew Brook O'donnell (Author)
> will be released on October 15, 2009.  There is an accompanying  
> workbook.  Both are available as preorder on Amazon.com for $39.99.
>
> Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (October 15,  
> 2009)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0802828272ISBN-13: 978-0802828279http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802828272/ref=pe_5050_12642920_snp_dp
>
> Does anyone know anything about this book? Is this just another  
> grammar or does Porter bring a new spin or approach to learning.

Perhaps it is a "prequel" to "Idioms of the Greek New Testament, "  
which is, it must be admitted, a novel title for a second-year textbook.
If it IS  "prequel," then, since we expect, rightly or wrongly, for  
things in sequence to come not in pairs but in triplicate, then we  
should look next for a "Prolegomena to the Study of Biblical Greek."  
There's plenty of material in the B-Greek archives for that: we spend  
more time talking about the prolegomena to the study of Biblical Greek  
than about Biblical Greek.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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