Recently I purchased the book Greek Verbs in the New Testament and their Principal Parts, by Laurence M. Vance. The book aims to explain why the Greek verbs change the way that they do – getting beyond the basic (and rather unhelpful) categories of “regular” and “irregular”. And then all of the principal parts that occur in the Greek New Testament are listed, in categories. Something like that anyway – I haven’t had the chance to read it yet, as no sooner had it arrived than Peter swiped it off my desk, silencing my protests with a growl and a stern look, and carrying it off to his jungle lair to read it through. [Peter, if you are reading this, I realise it didn't really happen like this, but the actual version of events is far less exciting, so please forgive this embellishment.] Anyway, Peter said it was worth reading, so I’m planning to sit down and read it through tomorrow. I’ll aim to give it a brief review when I’m done. If anyone else has read it, I’d be interested in your opinion.
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principle parts…there has got to be a better way…
Yeah – well I’m optimistic that the desire of the book is to get beyond memorizing endings and rather promote understanding of how & why verbs change the way they do…. Mind you, the book cover may undermine my optimism…
I don’t have this book but I do have his book on Calvinism. If the one you just purchases is anything like the one I have then it will benefit from some serious editing. I suppose this is one of the major problems of self-publishing.
Self-publishing? Man I hadn’t even noticed… “vance publishing”… Come to think of it, peter did mention there were errors in it…
To be honest I was surprised that the guy wrote a book about Greek. I wasn’t aware that he knew the language.