Which textbook & Greek exercises

SPegler919 at aol.com SPegler919 at aol.com
Sun Jun 3 21:09:06 EDT 2001


Last year I used Mounce.  It is very thorough, too much so for first year 
students, in my opinion.  It also relies too much on the NT for translation.  

This coming year I will be using _A Primer of Biblical Greek_ by Clayton 
Croy.  It is published by Eerdmans.  He teaches at Trinity Lutheran in 
Columbus, OH.  He has many more translation exercises.  Some are from the NT, 
some from the LXX, and others are English to Greek.  That in my opinion, is 
what will turn a mediocre student into someone who begins to get a feel for 
the language.

I have also used Machen, and Mills.  They have many of the same advantages as 
Croy's book.

Another of last year's instructors loved Mounce, however.  A lot is what you, 
as the instructor, feel comfortable with and your style of teaching.


On a related note, I have many *boring* grammar exercises for Greek on one of 
my web pages.  These are exercises that are designed to get the students 
practicing the endings of nouns and verbs, rather than translating.

For example:
Change the following verbs from present tense to aorist, retaining person and 
number.
Change the following verbs from singular to plural, retaining person.

They are all in pdf format.  If you use them, please let me know as you find 
errors.  Each exercise is complete, but I do not have all the exercises I 
want to have done yet.  I hope to add a lot more before the beginning of 
August, and certainly before the beginning of the fall semester.

URL:
http://members.aol.com/spegler919/greek.html

Stephen Pegler   AC 75-77
Ph.D. Candidate New Testament
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Bannockburn, IL

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