[B-Greek] B-Greek and Participation of Academics
Louis Sorenson
llsorenson at hotmail.com
Wed May 25 22:07:10 EDT 2011
Eddie,
I think Mike on his Blog also noted that Dallas Seminary students, Trinity Students, Gordon-Cromwell and other seminaries are also absent. I don't know about the Masters/Porter association. Even if a person disagrees on aspect/tense issues, the B-Greek site does have a wide range of topics it deals with. Do MacMaster students have an aversion to B-Greek because of Buth's and Carl's repudiation of Porter's view on tense and aspect? I don't know. I do think that academics don't want to put their stuff up in a forum they think is non-academic. If they stick out their neck and make a blunder or get bludgeoned, their career could suffer. And they are busy and perhaps cannot justify time to waste with trivials (which they may or may not consider a post on B-Greek to be).
Those who have gone through seminaries and colleges and have M.Div degrees or degrees with majors in Greek, and who also have a keen interest in New Testament Greek, and those few people (or more than a few) who have studied hard and learned Greek by themselves, are thirsty for the advice and consultation of people in the academic world who have made Greek be the study of their lives. This is the greatest impact of B-Greek. B-Greek may not impact the world of Greek academia very much, but the great populace of Greek NT enthusiasts are thrilled and delighted when a skilled academic makes a post on B-Greek. (It may even sell 100-300 more copies of their book). Greek students are hungering for for advice and seasoned wisdom. That's why they watch the B-Greek list. Where else can they go?
Every professor of NT Greek should remember that they are in a ministry. They have an obligation to share their knowledge and lead others who are interested in learning Greek better and more intimately....those teachers who do that, whether here on B-Greek or elsewhere. But the best place to maximize their input is either on their own blog or on B-Greek. It's a wonderful community. We need to keep our focus on Greek and not theology, and make sure we do not put down those who disagree with us on any specific issue; but regardless, there is no better place on the web for a student of Greek to learn about the Greek of the New Testament.
Louis Sorenson [B-Greek Co-chair]
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:38:12 -0700
From: edmishoe at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] B-Greek and Participation of Academics
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org; llsorenson at hotmail.com
Louis,
I can't imagine this being the reason, but does McMaster/Porter have a cult-like following, and might their students avoid scholars, such as Carl Conrad, who have publicly and graciously expressed disagreement with McMaster/Porter's Tenseless Indicative Verb System? Just a wild, innocent guess. I would be more than surprised if that were the case, but I thought I'd offer it for consideration, and if need be, immediate dismissal.
Eddie Mishoe
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