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Cargando... Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greekpor Constantine R. Campbell
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 Most scholars will find plenty of room for improvement in this brief volume. Nevertheless, Basics of Verbal Aspect fills a significant gap and provides a helpful starting point for teaching this important topic to students with a year or more of Greek, whether it is treated as an authority on every issue or utilized as a conversation partner.
Verbal aspect in the Greek language has been a topic of significant debate in recent scholarship. The majority of scholars now believe that an understanding of verbal aspect is even more important than verb tense (past, present, etc.). Until now, however, there have been no accessible textbooks, both in terms of level and price (most titles on the topic retail for more than $100). In this book, Constantine Campbell investigates the function of verbal aspect within the New Testament Greek narrative. He has done a marvelous job in this book of simplifying the concept without getting caught up using terms of linguistics that no one except those schooled in that field can understand. The book includes exercises, an answer key, glossary of key concepts, an appendix covering space and time, and an index to Scripture cited. Professors and students, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, will use this is as a supplemental text in both beginning and advanced Greek courses. Pastors that study the Greek text will also appreciate this resource as a supplement to their preaching and teaching. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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He begins with discussions regarding the terms to be used. He helpfully differentiates aspect from Aktionsart and notes how many "aktionsart" items are unhelpfully considered part of aspect (aspect is non-cancelable; aktionsart is more fluid and cancelable). His discussion of the history of how aspect has been understood is vital; it's interesting to see that aspect was not discussed much until the 19th century and really has only reached its current point within my lifetime (which is not that long!). It goes a long way to explain why so few grammars have a good, strong, coherent picture of aspect.
The author argues for a primarily "spatial" way of looking at the nature of the Greek verbal system over that of "temporal." He identifies only the future tense as primarily marking time; other tenses mark the aspect of "imperfective" (as if seeing the events as they proceed) or "perfective" (as if seeing the event as a whole, as if above). Present, imperfect, and the perfect are seen as imperfective; aorist and future are seen as perfective.
He then further narrows the function of each "tense" by virtue of proximity or remote: thus present is imperfective and proximate while imperfect is imperfective and remote; aorist is perfective and proximate while future is perfective in terms of remoteness. Perfect / pluperfect intensify proximity and remoteness. The author spends some time discussing form and function and provides many examples. Exercises and their answers are also provided.
There's a lot of great stuff here even if you are not entirely on board with all of the author's premises (I remain a bit skeptical of the future as perfective, but that may be my Hebrew background talking...). An essential work for a more developed understanding of Greek verbal aspect. (