[B-Greek] Steve Runge's new Discourse Grammar of the GNT

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 14 01:48:32 EST 2010


If your opinion of the worth of a book is determined by how much you pay for it, I would be willing to purchase it and resell it for twice the price.

george
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From: Kevin Riley <klriley100 at gmail.com>
To: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
Cc: B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sat, March 13, 2010 10:22:27 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Steve Runge's new Discourse Grammar of the GNT

Carl,

You almost had me persuaded.  I took a deep breath and went off to see how
many children I would have to sell to buy this wonderful book.  It seems to
be selling for less than the cost of the first half of the first chapter of
the last academic book I bought.  Should I rush to place an order before the
publishers realise the worth of the book, or is the price indicative of its
value?

Kevin Riley

On 14 March 2010 04:50, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:

> B-Greekers well know that I am a confirmed skeptic  regarding the ability
> and willingness of academic Linguists to explore and explain the workings of
> ancient Greek. Nevertheless, I won't hesitate to say that Steven Runge's new
> book, _A Discourse Grammar of the Greek New Testament: A Practical
> Introduction for Teaching and Exegesis_, is a real breakthrough achievement
> in the centuries-long endeavor to understand and demonstrate how ancient
> Greek effectively structured what its users wanted to say That claim will
> require some explanation of my skepticism about linguistics and no less
> about conventional grammar as an account of how language works and my
> gratification at this breakthrough.
>
> Heretofore I have disparaged academic Linguistics and its efforts to master
> the way ancient Greek functions . I have  described the academic linguists
> as dwelling in an ivory tower of Babel with many remote chambers where the
> elite meet to dialog with those of their own school in a jargon intelligible
> to each other but less intelligible to those in other wings and almost
> hopelessly undecipherable to the 'profanum vulgus' down below -- those of us
> who struggle to make sense of ancient Greek texts , those of us who must
> rely upon the tools of grammatical lore in order to understand what Homer
> and Plato and the authors of the New Testament scriptures sought to convey
> in a language that can come alive only through the arts of Hermes, whose
> magic wand leads the way across impenetrable boundaries and makes dead
> languages speak anew what their users of long ago intended for generations
> yet unborn to understand.
>
>
>
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