Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature

by Funk, Robert Walter

• ISBN13: 9780226271101
• ISBN10: 0226271102
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1961-12-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

This work was created by Friedrich Blass, professor of classical philology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg, and was continued after his death by Albert Debrunner, professor of Indo-European and classical philology at the University of Bern until his retirement in 1954. The grammar has passed through ten editions from 1896 to 1960. Robert W. Funk, in translating this long-established classic, has also revised it and, in doing so, has incorporated the notes which Professor Debrunner had prepared for a new German edition on which he was working at the time of his death in 1958. Dr. Funk has also had the co-operation of leading British, Continental, and American scholars. The translation places in the hands of English-speaking students a book that belongs in their libraries and in the libraries of every theologian, philologist and pastor alongside the Gingrich-Danker Greek-English Lexicon. This grammar sets the Greek of the New Testament in the context of Hellenistic Greek and compares and contrasts it with the classical norms. It relates to the New Testament language to its Semitic background, to Greek dialects, and to Latin and has been kept fully abreast of latest developments and manuscript discoveries. It is at no point exclusively dependent on modern editions of the Greek New Testament text but considers variant readings wherever they are significant. It is designed to compress the greatest amount of information into the smallest amount of space consistent with clarity. There are subsections discussing difficult or disputed points and copious citations of primary texts in addition to generous bibliographies for those who wish to pursue specific items further.

Author Biography

Elizabeth A. Kaye specializes in communications as part of her coaching and consulting practice. She has edited Requirements for Certification since the 2000-01 edition.

Table of Contents

From the Preface to the Fourth Edition	ix
Preface to the English Edition	xi
Tables of Abbreviations
Primary Texts
The New Testament, the Apostolic Fathers, and the Other Early Christian Literature	xvii
The Septuagint	xviii
Greek and Latin Texts and Authors	xix
Papyri and Inscriptions	xxiii
Literature
Modern Literature	xxv
Periodicals	xxxiii
General and Special Abbreviations
General Abbreviations	xxxvi
Special Abbreviations	xxxvii
Introduction
`New Testament Greek'	1	(1)
The Koine	1	(1)
The Place of the NT within Hellenistic Greek	2	(5)
Part I. PHONOLOGY
On Orthography	7	(4)
Phonetics in Composition	11	(2)
Major Vowel Changes	13	(2)
Other Sound Changes	15	(5)
On the Transliteration of Foreign Words	20	(5)
Part II. ACCIDENCE AND WORD-FORMATION
Declension	25	(11)
First Declension	25	(1)
Second Declension	25	(1)
Contracted Forms of the First and Second Declensions	25	(1)
Third Declension	26	(2)
Metaplasm (Fluctuation of Declension)	28	(1)
Declension of Foreign Words	29	(3)
Adjectives: New Feminines and Comparison	32	(2)
Numerals	34	(1)
Pronouns	35	(1)
Conjugation	36	(19)
Introduction	36	(1)
Augment and Reduplication	36	(2)
-ω Verbs	38	(8)
-MI Verbs	46	(4)
Supplement: Catalogue of Verbs	50	(5)
Adverbs	55	(2)
Particles	57	(1)
Word-Formation	58	(10)
Word-Formation by Suffixes	58	(4)
Word-Formation by Composition	62	(5)
The Formation of Personal Names	67	(1)
Vocabulary	68	(2)
Part III. SYNTAX
Subject and Predicate	70	(2)
Omission of the Verb &epsis;ιναι	70	(2)
Omission of the Subject	72	(1)
Agreement	72	(4)
Agreement in Gender	72	(1)
Agreement in Number	73	(1)
Constructio and Sensum	74	(1)
Agreement with Two or More Co-ordinate Words	74	(1)
More Serious Incongruencies (Solecisms)	75	(1)
Use of Gender and Number	76	(3)
Gender	76	(1)
Number	77	(2)
Syntax of the Cases	79	(31)
Nominative	79	(2)
Vocative	81	(1)
Accusative	82	(7)
Genitive	89	(11)
Dative	100	(10)
Syntax of Prepositions	110	(15)
Introduction	110	(1)
Prepositions with One Case	110	(9)
Prepositions with Two Cases	119	(3)
Prepositions with Three Cases	122	(3)
Syntax of Adjectives	125	(4)
Attributive	125	(1)
Predicate Adjective Corresponding to an Adverb (or Prepositional Phrase)	126	(1)
Comparison	126	(3)
Syntax of Numerals	129	(2)
The Article	131	(14)
`O η τo as a Pronoun	131	(1)
The Article with a Substantive	131	(7)
The Article with Adjectives Used as Substantives	138	(1)
The Substantivizing Article with Numerals, Adverbs, etc	139	(1)
The Article with Appositives	140	(1)
The Article with Two or More Attributives	140	(1)
The Article and the Position of the Attributive	141	(2)
The Article with Predicate Nouns	143	(1)
The Article with Pronouns and Pronominal Adjectives	143	(1)
The Article with Two or More Substantives Connected by και	144	(1)
Syntax of Pronouns	145	(16)
Personal Pronouns	145	(2)
Reflexive Pronouns	147	(1)
Possessive Pronouns	148	(2)
Reciprocal Pronouns	150	(1)
Aυτoς as Intensive and Identical	150	(1)
Demonstrative Pronouns	150	(2)
Relative Pronouns	152	(3)
Interrogative Pronouns	155	(3)
Indefinite Pronouns	158	(1)
Derivative Correlatives	159	(1)
Pronominal Adjectives	160	(1)
Syntax of the Verb	161	(59)
Voice	161	(5)
Active	161	(3)
Passive	164	(1)
Middle	165	(1)
Tense	166	(15)
The Present Indicative	167	(2)
The Imperfect and Aorist Indicatives	169	(3)
The Present and Aorist Imperatives and the Prohibitive and Adhortative Subjunctives	172	(2)
The Present and Aorist Infinitives	174	(1)
The Present and Aorist Participles	174	(1)
The Perfect	175	(2)
The Pluperfect	177	(1)
The Future	178	(1)
Periphrastic Conjugations	179	(2)
The Moods	181	(39)
The Indicative of Secondary Tenses in Main Clauses	181	(2)
The Future Indicative for Volitive Expressions in Main Clauses (instead of the Imperative and Subjunctive)	183	(1)
The Subjunctive in Main Clauses	183	(2)
Indicative and Subjunctive in Subordinate Clauses	185	(9)
The Optative	194	(1)
The Imperative	195	(1)
The Infinitive	196	(16)
The Participle	212	(8)
Adverbs and Particles	220	(19)
Negatives	220	(4)
Adverbs	224	(1)
Particles and Conjunctions	225	(14)
Modal Particles	226	(1)
Co-ordinating (Paratactic) Conjunctions	227	(9)
Subordinating (Hypotactic) Conjunctions	236	(3)
Sentence Structure	239	(9)
Asyndeton	240	(2)
The Period	242	(1)
The Parenthesis	242	(1)
Anacoluthon	243	(4)
The Use of Parataxis in the Vernacular	247	(1)
Word and Clause Order	248	(5)
Word Order	248	(5)
Clause Order	253	(1)
Ellipsis, Brachylogy, Pleonasm	253	(3)
Ellipsis and Brachylogy	253	(3)
Pleonasm	256	(1)
The Arrangement of Words: Figures of Speech	256	(1)
Figures of Expression	257	(5)
Figures of Thought	262	(3)
Indices
Index of Subjects	265	(9)
Index of Greek Words and Forms	274	(16)
Index of References	302