From: Richard Allan Stauch (RStauch@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 10:36:25 EDT
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From: Chet Creider [mailto:creider@csd.uwo.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 4:56 AM
>> It was there
>> all along, and I just never saw it. When I came across it, I checked
>> Hewett's "New Testament Greek: A Beginning and Intermediate Grammar",
>> Chapter 1: Alphabet, Orthography, and Punctuation. He doesn't mention
crasis
>> until Chapter 12, in a footnote on page 96!
>The author of a pedagogical work may perhaps be excused for not covering
>such a relatively unimportant topic early on.
>One possible ground for excusing you is that the standard grammars of NT
>Greek (Blass, Debrunner & Funk; Moulton & Howard), although they discuss
>crasis early on, assume you already know what it is. Perhaps it would be
>a good idea to get one of the standard grammars of Attic Greek (Goodwin &
>Gullick, Smythe (in English)) as these both define it and discuss it.
>Or perhaps as an alternative to Hewitt, _New Testament Greek: an
Introductory
>Grammar_ (Eric G. Jay, London: SPCK, 1958), which despite its title is
quite
>thorough and which discusses crasis on p. 55 (of 350 pages).
Chet,
Thanks for the help. I have decided I will finish going through Hewett, and
fully understand what he has to offer, before I start into anything else. I
need to practice finishing what I start. Even so, I value your input, and I
will keep your suggestions on file for later review. When I am ready to put
Hewett away, I'll use them to evaluate what I will do next.
I was just so mad at myself for not seeing it sooner. I am usually much
better at research than that. I would much rather lose my hair than the gray
matter under it, but I am afraid that may be what is happening.
Oh, well.
Thanks again,
Richard Allan Stauch
Long Beach, CA
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