[B-Greek] Zerwick

Jonathan Robie jonathan.robie at datadirect.com
Tue Aug 19 15:43:16 EDT 2003


As someone pointed out in private email, my initial response on this thread 
was confusing. For some reason, I had thought Mr. Hickey was asking whether 
Zerwick's intermediate grammar [5] is a good book for a first year student. 
I think it could be, but it is the Grammatical Analysis [1] that is 
particularly great for a first year student. The Grammatical Analysis 
refers to explanations in the grammar.

FWIW, here are my top three everyday tools for a beginner to use when 
reading Greek:

[1] Greek New Testament. 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Aland%2C%20Kurt/103-1266842-5435800>Kurt 
Aland, 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Aland%2C%20B./103-1266842-5435800>B. 
Aland (Editor), 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Metzger%2C%20Bruce%20M./103-1266842-5435800>Bruce 
M. Metzger (Editor), 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Karavidopoulos%2C%20J./103-1266842-5435800>J. 
Karavidopoulos (Editor).
UBS 4th Edition. American Bible Society, 1980. ISBN: 0000190497.

[2] A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament, Max Zerwick and Mary 
Grosvenor. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1981. ISBN 88-7653-588-8

[3] Abbot-Smith, George, ed. A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament. 
3rd ed. Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1937.

I chose Abbot-Smith because it is a little easier to read than BDAG, which 
is much more in-depth, and has lately become easy to read:

[4] A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian 
Literature
by 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Arndt%2C%20William/103-1266842-5435800>William 
Arndt, 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Bauer%2C%20Walter/103-1266842-5435800>Walter 
Bauer, 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Danker%2C%20Frederick%20W./103-1266842-5435800>Frederick 
W. Danker (Editor). University of Chicago Press; 3rd edition (November 30, 
2000) . ISBN: 0226039331.

Jonathan

P.S. The book I confused the Grammatical Analysis with is:

[5] Biblical Greek Illustrated By Examples, Maximilian Zerwick, S.J., 
translated from the Latin by Joseph Smith, S.J.. Roma. Editrice Pontificio 
Istituto Biblico, 1994.  




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