Teaching yourself Advance Greek

Rodney J. Decker rdecker at bbc.edu
Thu Feb 25 07:59:44 EST 1999


John commented that:
>Mounce's "Graded Reader" has a problem for self-study.  It depends on
>practically a different commentary for each of its passages.  For a person
>not living close to a seminary library, and not having enough money to buy
>all the commentaries, that is an insurmountable obstacle.
>
>Therefore, except for a few passages done, "Graded Reader" is just sitting
>on my bookshelf.

I have noted that many (most?) of my students who have an excellent library
immediately accessible do not often take the time to pursue the
commentaries that Mounce lists--and they still profit from the Reader. By
all means, don't let the book sit idle just because you don't have a
commentary that Mounce mentions! The book does not "depend on" these
commentaries; it is certainly not an "insurmountable obstacle." You will
learn a lot of Greek by working through the passages just with the reading
help and grammatical/syntactical explanations that Mounce gives--which are
substantial in their own right. You could even profit without having BAGD
(though I don't recommend that course!).



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