[B-Greek] William Harper Rainey's Textbook

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Sat Jan 29 12:59:45 EST 2011


Robert:

William Sanford La Sor has both a Hebrew and a Greek grammar that teaches the languages inductively:


La Sor, William Sanford, Peter Hintzoglou, and Eric N. Jacobsen. Handbook of New Testament Greek: An Inductive Approach Based on the Greek Text of Acts. Grand Rapids, MI.: Eerdmans, 1973. 
ISBN: 0802823416 (v. 1) 9780802823410 (v. 1) 

La Sor, William Sanford. Handbook of Biblical Hebrew: An Inductive Approach Based on the Hebrew Text of Esther. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978. 
ISBN: 0802823793 : 9780802823793 

Kevin

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--- On Sat, 1/29/11, Robert Stump <robertstump at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Robert Stump <robertstump at gmail.com>
> Subject: [B-Greek] William Harper Rainey's Textbook
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Saturday, January 29, 2011, 12:39 AM
> I've been a silent member of this
> list for while, but this is my first
> run at a question.
> 
> I am a seminary student, well technically I'm finishing my
> Bachelor's
> degree in Theology through a correspondence course as a
> prerequisite
> to seminary, but the course is offered through a
> seminary.  Given that
> I am working toward a scholarship I thought it wise to get
> a jump on
> NT Greek and accordingly started working through the
> lessons I found
> online in Rainey's 1888 "Introductory New Testament
> Method."  (Found
> here: http://books.google.com/ebooks?id=snFiAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader)
> 
> A number of years ago I decided to learn Latin, went
> online, found a
> number of books and internet courses, and eventually
> settled in with a
> couple of different first year books that I worked through.
> Most of
> them were rather tedious and I found that without a
> cohesive narrative
> to drive the works that vocabulary retention become a
> matter of nose
> to the grindstone by intensive copying and rote memory.
> 
> With Rainey's work it is another matter entirely.  The
> very first
> lesson begins with reading the Greek of John 1:1-2 and
> continues
> through the first twenty lessons to read all through the
> first
> chapter.  The linguist concepts and grammar are given
> as they show up
> in the text instead of, for instance, lesson one covering
> A-declension
> nouns, lesson two covering Indicative Active Regular Verbs
> et cetera
> ad naseum.
> 
> Outside of Latin, I have studied French and Spanish both in
> a
> classroom and sans, but I had never before encountered this
> method of
> what Rainey calls "Inductive" lessons.  Is he just a
> forgotten
> innovator; am I missing something integral to the study of
> Greek by
> this approach; or are there other texts that follow this
> sort of
> pattern that I am simply unaware of?
> 
> * * * * * *
> 
> I have found that in looking online for additional
> resources for Greek
> study, that the names that I see popping up through the
> list email are
> often also attached to those snippets that I have found
> most helpful;
> for instance, a few days ago I was surprised, pleasantly,
> to see the
> name Carl Conrad at the bottom of an in depth and revealing
> discussion
> of the Greek voices.  With that said I can only assume
> that if anyone
> would have a good answer they would be here.
> 
> Thank you all for your time and assistance,
> 
> Per sanguine agni,
> Robert Stump
> FL, USA
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