[B-Greek] textbook on Greek Syntax

Raymond Regalado fwgk5942 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
Fri Apr 30 19:43:47 EDT 2004


On 2004.5.1, at 05:49  AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> I am looking for a book that helps students understand
> how to "connect the pieces." Since word order is very
> flexible, I was hoping to find a book that explains
> the basics (and some advanced information would be a
> plus) on how to connect the Greek words of a sentence
> together. I am reading through Mounce, and I was
> hoping to find a book that takes a strong syntactical
> approach to the Greek sentence. Any suggestions?

If you just want to "read about" syntax (with lots of examples from the 
New Testament), maybe Daniel Wallace's "Greek Grammar Beyond the 
Basics" (ISBN#0310218950) is what you're looking for.  However, at this 
stage in your studies perhaps you can begin an "inductive" study of 
Greek (while continuing to read Mounce).  I suggest you obtain the 
following books by Max Zerwick:

1.  Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament (ISBN# 8876535888)
2.  Biblical Greek (ISBN# 8876535543)

What you do is you read a passage in the Greek New Testament, slowly, 
word-for-word, phrase-for-phrase.  Parse every word, then look at whole 
phrases and sentences and try to understand what they mean.  Look up 
forms in Mounce when you're not sure.  Look up the passage in Zerwick's 
"Grammatical Analysis" for word meanings, parsings, syntax explanations 
and other neat pieces of information.  Here and there Zerwick points 
you to sections in his "Biblical Greek" grammar book for more detailed 
explanations of the syntax.  Finally, if you're not really sure you 
understood or translated the passage correctly, look it up in the NASB 
or some other "literal" translation.

Kind Regards,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo, Japan




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