[B-Greek] Diagramming of Greek Sentences

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Thu Dec 2 08:23:59 EST 2004


Richard:

I would recommend two books that might help

Biblical Greek Exegesis by George H. Guthrie and J.
Scott Duvall. Zondervan, 1998.

New Testament Exegesis 3rd ed. by Gordon D. Fee.
Westminster/John Knox, 2002

Kevin
--- Richard Burks <rburks9400 at comcast.net> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I have read several Homiletics books which discuss
> the advantage of
> diagramming Biblical sentences in preparation of
> sermons.  However
> diagramming which I took a class on in 7th grade
> English always seemed to be
> a tedious process.  One which it took me a long time
> to do.
> 
> Most of my language work has been with Biblical
> Hebrew, and Biblical Greek
> has always been a minor to my Hebrew major ... Well
> its always been more
> difficult for me.  I am a pastor, and am working on
> my dissertation at a
> small seminary with an emphasis on Hebrew but I am
> including a lot of
> references from the NT and LXX for my work. Besides
> my school work and
> pastoral work I am a full time electronic engineer.
> 
> Frankly though I have seen examples of people
> diagramming Hebrew sentences,
> I have not found it helpful to do so since Hebrew is
> so different than Greek
> English or Latin.  But I would like to learn to do
> this properly for my next
> series of sermons on a NT book.
> 
> Can someone suggest a good book on an easy method to
> diagram Greek
> sentences, or to lay them out in logical order so
> that I can establish the
> relationships of the words in a Greek sentence.
> 
> The ones I have seen I have tried to use on some of
> the verses in John or in
> the writings of Paul but have not had much success
> in this area.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Bill Burks
> 
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