[B-Greek] Fw: B-Greek Digest, Vol 100, Issue 8 - review of Machen

Barry H. nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Apr 16 07:30:21 EDT 2011


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From: "Shirley Rollinson" <rollinsondr at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Fw: B-Greek Digest, Vol 100, Issue 8 - review of Machen


>With reviews like that - who needs enemies ?
>yassas
>Shirley Rollinson
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> 1. Silva on the purpose of Greek (Carl
> Conrad)
> 2. Re: Silva on the purpose of Greek (Oun
> Kwon)

>From: "Oun Kwon" <kwonbbl at gmail.com>To: "B-Greek" 
><b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>FYI

>A book review on this

>www.bookreviews.org/pdf/4633_4739.pdf

1.  Haaving taught out of the original Machen for a number of years, I agree 
with many of the criticisms that Prof. Vance advances.  I was still at WTS 
when Dan was working on the revision -- he at one time had asked me for some 
supplemental materials I used in my teaching (specifically on the various 
uses of αὐτός, AUTOS), but never actually used them.  I expected a much more 
throrough revision than what we actually got.

2.  Some of what we now perceive as weaknesses in Machen's original have to 
do with the time period in which it was published.  The changes in our view 
of the language due to linguistics weren't available in Machen's time. 
Machen could also expect the majority of his students to have had at least 4 
years of Latin and French or German by the time they showed up in his 
classes.  Machen could assume a great deal of familiarity with certain 
grammatical principles, and his students wouldn't have blinked an eye at 
some of the brevity of explanations in the text.

3.  Vance mentiones that the text doesn't inform people that δοκέω is not a 
contract verb.  It's listed as such in every text I have ever seen.  Does he 
mean καλέω, KALEW, or have I been missing something all these years?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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