[B-Greek] Mounce versus Croy

Michael Aubrey mga318 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 6 23:12:14 EDT 2011


That's encouraging. I haven't had a chance to examine the new workbook yet--its on my shelf, but I haven't had the time to peruse it.

As for conciseness. I've gone back and forth on that one...one might just as readily say that Mounce is unnecessarily verbose. Granted, I must confess that I haven't seen Croy since 2005 when I let a friend borrow it and never saw it again.

Mike



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From: Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com>
To: Michael Aubrey <mga318 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Biblical Greek Mailing List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 7:25 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Mounce versus Croy

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Michael Aubrey <mga318 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes. That's about right. I used Croy at some point in my past. It is poorly
> made and its not useful for self-learners--though that relates more to the
> lack of an answer key than the content. Its use of the Septuagint in
> exercises is excellent though. Mounce cannot match that--or at least
> doesn't.

Yes, the comments about self-learning did refer to the answer key, but
also that Croy is quite a bit more concise than Mounce.

By the way, in the latest edition of the Mounce Workbook, there were
many sentences taken from the LXX among the "Additional" exercises,
which I required my students to do.

Stephen
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Stephen C. Carlson
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University


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