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I agree with what you say about Wenham's grammar book!
I used Wenham's grammar in seminary with a wonderful teacher named
Dr. Jud Davis.  He attended Trinity for his masters and earned his 
doctorate in England @ Scofield.  He met Wenham on a few occasions.
Our class met over a 20 week period meeting once a week for 3 hours
each.  In that time, our class finished Wenham's book and are 
focussing this 10 week quarter (which is about to end) on reading 
the GNT. It is an excellent way of learning Greek and focusses on 
the main end result of learning how to read Greek through and through.
Next quarter will be our exegesis quarter.  If anyone in Atlanta, GA,
desires to learn Greek I wholeheartedly recommend Dr. Jud Davis of 
Atlanta School of Biblical Studies.  (ASBS)  He most likely will 
be teaching Hebrew in the coming year and I surely will be there
unless I die first!
Thanks, Lance Crimm


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Date: 6/3/97 10:40 AM
To: Lance Crimm
From: Carlton Winbery
One of the real pleasures of my year in Oxford (83-84) was "eating" tea
with John Wenham on Sunday afternoon fortnightly.  I also "ate" tea with
G.D. Kilpatrick on Thursday afternoons.  These two gentlemen often walked
together for exercise, as they both lived in the same neighborhood between
Banberry Rd & Woodstock Rd.  I also often attended the programs at Latimer
House where Wenham was Warden.  They had such people as Donald Guthrie and
Maurice Wilds (certainly two opposites in theology) at Latimer House for
these debates.

I say all this to say that John Wenham was a great evangelical who did not
suffer the fear that seems to grip some American evangelicals of allowing
an audience to those "liberals" from whom you might learn something.

As to his Greek beginning grammar.  As traditional grammars go, it is a
good one and has been widely used among English students outside the US.
There are two reasons, I think, why it has never been widely used in the
US, maybe three.  1) Most teachers of Greek in the US have felt that
accents, while not of primary importance, are important.  I would add that
for those Greek students I have taught, they seem to have less trouble with
them if introduced to them at the very beginning. 2) Wenham's book is very
traditional. For this type grammar, Machen has been hard to beat. In
Baptist institutions, Davis or Summers. 3?)  We have been aflicted with the
idea in the US that every Greek teacher should produce his own beginning
grammar, hence a rash of grammars that can be "covered by a dime" in terms
that the only difference between them is the order of the lessons.  I have
also seen a lot of locally produced workbook type introductions to Greek
some of which have never been officially published.  Most of these simply
correct some minor "flaws" in some other basic grammar.  Others take a
completely different approach (inductive primarily).


Carlton L. Winbery
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