[B-Greek] Greek refresher

Bill Moore wgmoore at integrity.com
Sat Dec 20 16:58:22 EST 2003


Eric,

Thanks for the response.  I have Greek Tutor and used it when I was taking
1st year Greek (actually, at my seminary it was "first semester Greek"---we
covered Mounce in one semester, which allowed for too little reinforcement
of concepts, in my opinion).  From Hildebrandt's response to you, Mastering
NT Greek is simply the older Greek Tutor with add-ons.  Am I right?

Be that as it may, would you (and others) comment on the value of immersing
oneself for, say, an hour a day in the Greek NT, stopping to look up words
with a lexicon or even using a NT with the Greek on one side and the English
(hidden except when needed) on the other as opposed to working through
textbooks.  The textbook could be consulted when needed.  Or perhaps one
could do something similarly by reading the Greek on a software program (I
have Gramcord with Bible Companion) and clicking on words which are
unfamiliar, hoping that the unfamiliar will become more familiar as one
plows on.

Please forgive the rambling, but I am trying to use a good strategy at the
start in my journey toward understanding the Greek NT better.

Thanks.
Bill

William G. Moore, Pastor
Cornerstone Baptist Church
1797 Hwy 72 W
Clinton, SC  29325
864-833-1777
www.cornerstonebaptistclinton.org

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Eric Weiss 
  To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org 
  Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 3:59 PM
  Subject: [B-Greek] Greek refresher


  Because I'm curious about helps for my Greek class/students,
  I wrote Ted Hildebrandt (e-mail) with questions about his new
  program (which you are thinking of buying) versus the old Greek
  Tutor (I have Hebrew Tutor). The following is from his replies. 
  Since the box does not go into enough detail about the 
  course/materials contents, I asked him directly:
   
  Eweiss,

  Basically the Mastering NT Greek has the old Gk Tutor program built into
  it. There are also 4 printable books developed to coordinate with the
  28 chapters of the Gk Tutor interactive program (textbook, 350 pp;
  workbook 250 pp, a complete simple lexicon (every word in the NT) 100
  pages, Vocab builder down to 9x 70 pages) these are all printable in
  *.pdf format. I've also added an interactive 1 John 1-5 easy reader and
  John 1-5 easy reader, a vocabulary builder down to the words used 9x in
  the NT (1200 words) in the supplement. Thus it is a complete package
  having all the textbooks and interactive materials you need to learn
  first year Greek. My students were getting clobbered with high textbook
  costs and this solves that problem.
   
  Eric,

  Probably the grammar Mastering NT Greek is closest to is Machen's. Not
  sure how it fits with the other grammars. I used Mounce for a couple
  years and hated leaving the verbs until after chapter 15. In Mastering
  the Present verbs are introduced right away so sentences can be built
  rather than working with a noun only approach. Not sure about Greek to
  me. The chapters in Mastering are 
  1) Alphabet; 2) accents/syllables, 3) Present Active Indicative
  Verbs, 4) Second Declension nouns, 5) First Declension nouns, 6)
  Prepositions, 7) Adjectives; 8) Personal pronouns, 9) Middle/passive
  verbs, 10) Future verbs; 
  11) Demonstrative Pronouns, 12) Imperfect Verbs; 13) Third Declension
  nouns;
  14) Second Aorist Verbs; 15) First Aorist Verbs; 16) Aorist & Future
  Passives; 17) Contract Verbs; 18) Perfect Verbs; 19) Present
  Participles;
  20) Aorist Participles; 21) Perfect Participles; 22) Infinitives; 23)
  Subjunctive Verbs; 24) Imperative Verbs; 25) Mi Verbs; 26) Numbers and
  Interrogatives; 27) Clause types; and 28) Case Revisited (genitive and
  dative case options in a deeper way); 

  Not sure how this synch's up with "Greek to me" The benefit of the
  interactive program is the computer talks to you showing you how the
  words are pronounced and can be clicked repeatedly until it is mastered.
   
  - - -
  Eric S. Weiss
  eweiss at gte.net
   
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