From: Lynn Trapp (rltrapp@bluebunny.com)
Date: Fri Nov 03 2000 - 10:54:01 EST
Steven,
In fact, that did strike me as an odd thing about the book in question. It
seems to me that the only real value of any interlinear would be for
vocabulary building for a beginning reader of Greek. To twist it around and
make the "primary" text the English seems to me to be counter productive to
that end, and only serves to do what Carl suggested--make "would-be Greek
scholars" out of any and every Joe who comes along.
Lynn Trapp
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Sheeley [mailto:ssheeley@shorter.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 9:47 AM
> To: Lynn Trapp
> Subject: RE: [b-greek] Re: Mounce NIV English-GNT
>
>
> All this, and still no one has wondered about the Greek text
> being altered
> in order to conform to the order and form of the NIV? In
> this instance, the
> Greek text has become merely another tool to understand the
> "primary" NIV
> text.
>
> Steven Sheeley
> Associate Professor of Religion
> Associate Dean of the College
> Shorter College
> Rome, GA
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lynn Trapp [mailto:rltrapp@bluebunny.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 10:40 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Mounce NIV English-GNT
>
>
> 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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> > Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649
> > cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu
> >
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