[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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