[B-Greek] An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal Aspect

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri May 20 00:16:12 EDT 2011


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Sarah J. Blake <sarah at growingstrong.org> wrote:
> Does anyone have opinions on Porter and Carson, Biblical Greek Language and
> Linguistics: Open Questions and Current Research (JSNT 80)?

Yes. Look at the editors.
Looks like a trojan horse. (Want to add a word or a paper, Steve?)

For a balanced view 'aspect-only' should have been labelled
a non-Greek, non-viable view, not a point for research. That
some people follow it twenty years later does not speak well
for our field.
Fanning, by the way, was fine, and is where discussion and
research should have been following. In a sense, it is where
the majority is, they have been less prolix.

Louis asked about the last 200 years. Nobody has been
'aspect-only' in the past 2000 years until Porter twenty
years ago. Nor will they be in another generation, if they
know Greek.

I really do not think that people who communicate
with each other in ancient Greek and who immerse themselves
in the sources will be enamoured with 'aspect-only'.

Randall Buth

> Sarah J. Blake



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