Bill Renner
W. Columbia, SC
wrenner@infoave.net
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edgar M Krentz [mailto:emkrentz@mcs.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 17, 1998 7:38 PM
> To: Mary L B Pendergraft
> Cc: b-greek@virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: grammars: Hewett, Voelz, etc.
>
>
> >Chuck's message ends:
> >
> >So I highly recommend Greek, An Intensive Course by
> >>Hansen and Quinn.
> >>
> >>Chuck Tripp
> >>Kodiak, Alaska
> >
> >
> >Yes, Hansen & Quinn is the Cadillac of beginning grammar books.
> It's very
> >demanding but very thorough, and the second volume is an extremely useful
> >reference. And if you work through the exercises, you'll have read
> >substantial chunks of Plato!
> >Mary
> >
> I agree about this one with Mary/. But I would add that there is an
> exceellent beginning [classical] Greektext by a woman professor
> of Classics
> at St. Olaf College (Name escapes me).
>
> And for individual learning on one's own I would also suggest the Greek
> course put out by Cambridge University Press (also for classical Greek).
>
> And Chuck's(?) comment that classical Greek is not that far from Koine is
> right on target. Any suggestion that Koine--by which people on this list
> too often mean Greek in the NT, an extremely short-sighted view-- is
> somehow or other a unique language without continuity with the whole
> history of Greek is just plain wrong. It deserves to be banished from
> b-greek into Limbo. Pardon the homiletical comment, possibly preaching to
> the choir.
>
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