[B-Greek] Very interesting GNT, _A Readers Greek New Testament_

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Tue Apr 27 09:58:08 EDT 2004


Zondervan OWNS the NIV -- they don't own the UBS4 text. That explains 
why they picked the text they did, methinks! :) And ... I suppose they will 
begin "recommending" it for first-year Greek students to purchase along 
with Mounce's text and workbook. Which means they'll also likely suggest 
that students purchase Trenchard's vocabulary book (also owned by 
Zondervan) so they can learn the additionaly 250 or so words they'll need 
to learn to bring their vocabulary from 50x or more to 30x or more!
 
Despite some objections I stated earlier, at http://www.overstock.com 's
price of $17.49, I couldn't pass it up -- I ordered mine yesterday.
$1.40 s/h on one item, $2.50 on two items, $2.95 max on 3 or more items. 
Such a deal!! Probably the best price around, even with Amazon's "no s/h" 
on total orders of $25 or more.
 
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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



Eric S. Weiss
http://www.geocities.com/papaweiss1/index.htm


		
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