{"id":8535,"date":"2015-08-20T02:28:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2015-08-20T02:44:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:44:10","slug":"book-notice-advances-in-the-study-of-the-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2015\/08\/book-notice-advances-in-the-study-of-the-greek\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Notice: Advances in the Study of Greek"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

C\"\"<\/span><\/a>onstantine R. Campbell<\/strong><\/span>
\nAdvances in the Study of Greek: New Insights for Reading the New Testament<\/span><\/strong><\/em>
\nGrand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2015.
\nAvailable at Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Time to get your Greek geek on cause there are two great books out about the study of NT Greek.<\/p>\n

The first is by my friend and TEDS professor Con Campbell. He\u2019s an Aussie, so you know he\u2019s cool and always correct.<\/p>\n

This is a great book that should be mandatory\u00a0reading for anyone who teaches Greek and required reading for anyone doing taking Greek exegesis classes. \u00a0Campbell does a great job of showing what are the recent and cutting edge views in the study of languages, especially NT Greek, and why you need to know about it! Campbell deals with ten basic areas including (1) A short history of Greek studies; (2) Linguistic theories; (3) Lexical semantics and lexicography; (4) Deponency and the middle voice; (5) Verbal aspect and\u00a0aktionsart<\/em>; (6) Idolect, genre, and register; (7-8) Discourse analysis; (9) Pronunciation; and (10) Teaching and learning Greek!<\/p>\n

Main things I took away were:<\/p>\n

\u2013 We need to know more than grammar (learning content, vocabulary and paradigms, or how a language works) but also about linguistics (the theory of language or how languages work).
\n\u2013 We all\u00a0need to check out the\u00a0Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics<\/em> <\/a>(Leiden: Brill, 2014).
\n\u2013 Long live systematic functional linguistics, a way of learning about how a language is used and informs us about its structures.
\n\u2013 Don\u2019t trust a lexicon that uses glosses rather than definitions!
\n\u2013 BDAG and L&N are not perfect, but probably the best lexicons around.
\n\u2013 Deponency died the same year that Tony Curtis did (2010), but passive deponents are still a curious problem.
\n\u2013 Verbal aspect refers to point of view (perfective or imprefective) while\u00a0Aktionsart<\/em> refers to what type of action (iterative, ingressive, etc.)
\n\u2013 Porter and Campbell agree that Greek verbs do not encode tense-forms, temporality\u00a0\u00a0is more a function of context.
\n\u2013 Is the perfect tense perfective, stative, or temporal? See the volume: D.A. Carson (ed.),\u00a0The Perfect Volume: Critical Discussion fo the Semantics of the Greek Perfect Tense under Aspect Theory\u00a0<\/em>(SBG; New York: Peter Lang, forthcoming).
\n\u2013 Discourse analysis, it is all about the paragraph people!
\n\u2013 In pronunciation, Erasmus sat on a throne of lies: B is really a \u201cv\u201d \u00a0and X can be a \u201ch\u201d or \u201cch\u201d.
\n\u2013 Knowing how to properly pronounce Greek is important \u2026 as long as you are seeking ordination in the Greek Orthodox church.
\n\u2013 Try use technology when you teach Greek since technology (esp. Bible Software) is now a big part of how people use Greek.
\n\u2013 Richard Gibson and Con Campbell should write a Greek grammar.<\/p>\n

I loved this final quote from Con:<\/p>\n

Greek cannot be regarded as a peripheral issues for New Testament studies, since the entire New Testament is written in Greek. This means that New Testament studies can no longer afford to hold Greek scholarship at arm\u2019s length, for there is no area of New Testament interest that \u00a0does not involve Greek in some capacity. It affects the entire guild. This is fact; the only question is whether or not we will be responsible with that fact. For bad Greek is like a poisoned water stream it a village; its ill effects touch everyone (p. 225).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If you are serious about Greek then you really should seriously read this book!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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