[B-Greek] Aorist Middle/Passive
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Oct 13 15:18:03 EDT 2010
On Oct 13, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Brian Abasciano wrote:
> "Micheal Palmer has done it; it's part of his
> online Koine Greek Grammar, a commendable and very
> fine piece of work. "
>
> Does this judgment apply to the grammar as a whole, or just the treatment of the aorist middle/passive. I am assuming the former but just wanted to be sure.
Really it applies to both. I must confess that I was particularly delighted to see that the aorist middle/passive was presented in an altogether new fashion which happens to reflect a perspective on ancient Greek voice that I have been trying to propound in this forum for several years. But the care that Micheal Palmer has exerted on this particular item is displayed elsewhere too; he is a linguist endeavoring to compile a NT Koine grammar that is not, like most of those one sees, pretty much a re-presentation of the perspective on Biblical Greek inherited by and large from the past several centuries. In my opinion, for what it's worth, only Bob Funk broke out of that mold previously in his Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek (http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/pre-alpha/).
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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