New "Baby Greek" book by Bill Mounce

Paul Schmehl p.l.schmehl at worldnet.att.net
Thu Nov 1 21:47:19 EST 2001


This sounds like a book I might have bought at one time.  When I first heard
Greek being taught, I knew nothing.  Being the skeptical sort, I bought
Young's Concordance and began to look things up.  That's when I first
discovered that Greek words aren't always translated the same way.  Then I
bought an Interlinear Greek/English New Testatment.  That's when I first
discovered that sometimes Greek words aren't translated at all.  Then I
bought Bullinger's Lexicon, and that's when I first discovered that Greek
words can have a great deal of meaning.  And so it went.  I acquired BAG and
Wuest's "Word Studies" and other books when a local minister quit the
ministry and sold his library.  Other books came later, such as Metzger's
"The Text of the New Testament", etc.

After twenty years of "studying" Greek, I took a course taught by a local
minister who used to be a NT Greek professor at a seminary.  We used
Machen's "New Testament Greek for Beginners".  That gave me the courage to
buy the UBS 4th and a Parsing Guide from a local seminary.  Then I decided
that I wanted exposure to "non-religious" Greek, so I took a semester of
Classical Greek at UTD (where I work.)  I enjoyed it, so I took a second
semester.

Now I feel like I'm beginning to learn Greek and understand it better,
although I have a long way to go before I can sit down and read it like some
of you do.

Sometimes it's the little things that get someone started.

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
p.l.schmehl at worldnet.att.net
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/




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