[b-greek] Re:Apostrophe or Breathing Mark?

From: Chet Creider (creider@csd.uwo.ca)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 07:56:25 EDT


> To paraphrase Ralph Cramden, "ooooo boy." Well, there you go. It was there
> all along, and I just never saw it. When I came across it, I checked
> Hewett's "New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar",
> Chapter 1: Alphabet, Orthography, and Punctuation. He doesn't mention crasis
> until Chapter 12, in a footnote on page 96! Until I started this little
> project, I never paid attention, but assumed. The crasis mark is there, bold
> as you please, in the UBS GNT, and in both on-line databases I have been
> using for years (BibleWorks v. 3.2). I am truly sorry for bothering you and
> all the smart guys with such a question. But, why am I always the last one
> to know?

The author of a pedagogical work may perhaps be excused for not covering
such a relatively unimportant topic early on.

One possible ground for excusing you is that the standard grammars of NT
Greek (Blass, Debrunner & Funk; Moulton & Howard), although they discuss
crasis early on, assume you already know what it is. Perhaps it would be
a good idea to get one of the standard grammars of Attic Greek (Goodwin &
Gullick, Smythe (in English)) as these both define it and discuss it.

Or perhaps as an alternative to Hewitt, _New Testament Greek: an Introductory
Grammar_ (Eric G. Jay, London: SPCK, 1958), which despite its title is quite
thorough and which discusses crasis on p. 55 (of 350 pages).

Chet Creider

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