[B-Greek] Steve Runge's new Discourse Grammar of the GNT
Kevin Riley
klriley100 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 14 05:10:40 EDT 2010
My comment was meant to be TIC. If you consider the price asked for many
books that students of Classical/Koiné Greek either need or would benefit
from, then you will understand my surprise that a book that appears to be of
some value is available for a price that most of us can afford. The last
book i went looking at because it was on special was only $150. I've no
doubt it is worth that much, nor do I have any doubt about my inability to
justify spending that much.
Kevin Riley
On 14 March 2010 17:48, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
> gfsomsel
>
>
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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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