From: Lynn Trapp (rltrapp@bluebunny.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 10:39:58 EST
Dr. Carl,
Do I get that you are suggesting that one cannot become a Greek scholar
equipped with only an interlinear and a copy of Vines Expository Dictionary
of New Testament Words?
Lynn Trapp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:53 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Mounce NIV English-GNT
>
>
> At 3:24 PM +0100 11/3/00, Wieland Willker wrote:
> >Coming in December:
> >
> >NIV English-Greek New Testament, The
> >A Reverse Interlinear
> >William D. Mounce, Editor
> >ISBN: 0310203775
> >Zondervan Publishing House
> >Size: 6-1/8 x 9-3/16 - 1536 pp - Price: $49.99, CBD: $34.99
> >
> >Synopsis: An Interlinear New Testament in which the English
> text (NIV) is
> >primary rather
> >than Greek text (as all the other interlinear New Testaments are.)
> >
> >Catalog Description: The NIV English-Greek New Testament is an
> >interlinear with a twist.
> >In this volume, the English text (NIV) is the top line of
> the text, with
> >the Greek below
> >it, appropriately adjusted to the English, as well as the
> >Goodrick/Kohlenberger number and
> >the morphological tag (the latter shows exactly what kind of
> form it is)
> >in two separate
> >lines below the Greek text. The reader is able can read the
> English and
> >work towards the
> >Greek without having much knowledge of Greek
>
> And how many more, I wonder, will, thus empowered, make the
> claim that they
> understand the Greek NT? I certainly begrudge nobody access
> to Greek, but I
> nevertheless marvel at how the allurement of a simple
> understanding of the
> Biblical text and its language is packaged and sold--aye, and
> at bargain
> prices!
>
> --
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics/Washington University
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