[B-Greek] Very interesting GNT, _A Readers Greek New Testament_
Patrick Narkinsky
patrick at narkinsky.com
Mon Apr 26 23:17:37 EDT 2004
On Apr 26, 2004, at 10:00 PM, James Bowick wrote:
> I saw that a few days ago. You are right it is a very nice format.
> What I
> thought was particularly interesting is that the bottom of the page
> gives a
> gloss definition for every word that occurs less than 30 times in the
> GNT.
> This means that those of us with rusty vocab. can use it to almost site
> read, and focus our learning attention on grammatical issues.
I second the endorsement. I picked one up last week, and the cover and
binding seem to be of unusually high quality for the price. More
importantly, the glosses on each page make such a difference for me
that I can actually use it as my primary NT. The stated goal is to
enable students to pick up vocabulary inductively, as its needed,
rather than by memorization, and I think this edition may well enable
that for me. It is undoubtedly worth the money: $30 list, $23 with
seminarian discount.
A few suggestions for improvement:
[1] I really wish they used the UBS4 text instead of "the text behind
the NIV". I would feel more comfortable with a text that was not
quite so arbitrary.
[2] A full lexicon (like the UBS4 lexicon) in the back would be nice.
[3] A brief table of paradigms like those in the appendices of Mounce
would be helpful for us little Greeks from time to time.
[4] The format is less than ideal: the book is tall, wide, and thin. I
would much rather it be smaller and fatter like the UBS4 to fit in
pockets in my briefcase.
Patrick Narkinsky
M.Div. Candidate
John Leland Center for Theological Studies
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