[B-Greek] An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal Aspect
Brian Abasciano
bvabasciano at gmail.com
Wed May 11 12:27:38 EDT 2011
I should add that I appreciated the author listing out the main views and giving some all too brief indication of the historical placement of the views. But I would disagree that his “view 2” (which includes tense relating the objective nature of an action) remains most prominent and taught. I would think that his “view 3” (aspect plus time) holds that distinction (and I would say for good reason!).
God bless,
Brian Abasciano
From: Brian Abasciano
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 12:16 PM
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Subject: An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal Aspect
I ran across this article available on the internet that gives an accessible brief introduction to Greek verbal aspect and debate about it, and thought it would be good to post the link to B-Greek for anyone that could use such a primer: Andrew David Naselli, “A Brief Introduction to Verbal Aspect in New Testament Greek,” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 12 (2007): 17–28. The author does not particularly argue for the “aspect only” view, but describes it and elaborates on it, along with describing to a much lesser extent, the other main views, though he favors the “aspect only view”. (I myself presently ascribe to the “aspect plus time view” described in the article, for which the author lists Fanning, Wallace, and Silva as representatives.)
http://andynaselli.com/wp-content/uploads/2007_verbal_aspect.pdf
God bless,
Brian Abasciano
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