[B-Greek] William Harper Rainey's Textbook

Robert Stump robertstump at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 21:24:43 EST 2011


Carl-

I feel like I ought to be calling you Professor Conrad.  I've run into
a number of articles that you've written, it seems that when I have a
question and search for an answer your name is not far behind.  I
cannot express my appreciation in its fullness.

You mentioned that it is B-Greekers who are scanning and formating the
project.  Do you know if someone has an available PDF scan of the work
en totum?  I ask because I work as a designer at a print shop and have
the resources to create a quality tome from such file.

Per sanguine agni,
Robert Stump
FL, USA

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 31, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Robert Stump wrote:
>
>> Mark-
>>
>> I did a little searching around after what you wrote about Machen's
>> work, and then after getting a little background on the man himself.
>> It took a bit of searching but I found a website with a PDF scan of
>> the original 1923 edition:
>>
>> (http://www.churchlivinglord.com/Machen_NTGreek.html)
>>
>> Is it safe to assume that I'm not missing out on much from the newer editions?
>
> There are different opinions about Machen's textbook. I taught from it once
> and rued doing so on grounds of inadequate grammatical explanation and
> Greek to English and English to Greek sentences clearly more represeentative
> of English idiom than of any ancient Greek.  My impression is that the later
> revisions were considerable improvements over earlier editions; but there
> are far, far better primers than Machen, several of which have been mentioned
> in earlier replies to your question. If it's primarily Biblical Greek that you
> want to learn, you ought to make some use of the long-out-of-print work
> that was scanned and reformulated by B-Greekers, Robert Funk's
> _Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of Hellenistic Greek_. It is accessible
> at: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/project/funk-grammar/pre-alpha/
> If I were still teaching and teaching a course in Biblical Greek, this is
> what I would use.
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
>
>
>



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