Grammar

Mark Goodacre M.S.Goodacre at bham.ac.uk
Sun Feb 25 17:53:35 EST 2001


On 25 Feb 2001, at 13:53, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> At 1:08 PM -0500 2/25/01, Alexander Kyrychenko wrote:
> >New Testament Greek for Beginners by J. Gresham Machen:
> >
> >http://www.ccel.org/m/machen/greek/htm/TOC.htm
> 
> It should be borne in mind that when one "purchases" this "free" NT
> Greek textbook that's readily accessible on the web, one gets exactly
> as much as one pays for: inadequate explanations of Greek
> constructions, some questionable made-up Greek sentences to translate
> into English, and some still-more-questionable English sentences to
> translate into Greek. I used the text myself a few times, so I do have
> a basis for the judgment.

I am grateful for these comments, only having see Machen through 
the on-line version.  

> You should at least be aware of and check out some other alternatives
> noted at Micheal Palmer's page entitled "Greek Language and
> Linguistics Gateway":
> 
> http://www.greek-language.com/learn.greek/

While not taking away, of course, from Michael Palmer's very 
useful page, I wonder if I might also recommend Marc Huys 
excellent Greek Grammar on the Web at 
http://perswww.kuleuven.ac.be/~p3481184/greekg.htm, which 
provides a good series of links as well as incisive comments on 
each of each of the courses, grammars etc. to which he is drawing 
attention.

I've just added another link to the Learning NT Greek section on the 
Greek NT Gateway (http://www.ntgateway.com/greek) -- Michael 
Haggett's New Testament Greek course 
(http://website.lineone.net/~ntgreek).  At first look through, I 
thought it quite clear and helpful;  nice audio elements too.  It uses 
the Athena unicode font and provides useful instructions on how to 
download (contrast CCEL on Machen, which doesn't make clear 
anywhere that I can see that they have used SIL Galatia).  Two 
frustrations -- one is that the complete version has to be purchase 
on CD-ROM and the other is no accents or iota subscripts -- the 
lack of the latter bothers me a lot for teaching first years.

I don't suppose we could persuade Jonathan to resume writing his 
on-line textbook can we?  I used to look forward to each new 
lesson!

Mark
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