[B-Greek] Greek for laymen

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 8 10:41:14 EST 2004


Edward W. Goodrick's DO IT YOURSELF HEBREW AND GREEK is back in print. Goodrick tells the student repeatedly and incessantly that completing his book IN NO WAY makes them qualified to translate Greek, nor should they think that they now "know Greek." It's designed for self-study and may be a good option for people that want to learn the alphabet, how to do word studies, a little about the verbal system -- moods, tenses, participles, etc. A downside is that it was written many years ago, and his recommendations for tools and further study are hence somewhat dated. But ... the student can also learn some basic Hebrew from the same book!
 
L. William Countryman has a book entitled READ IT IN GREEK: AN INTRODUCTION TO NEW TESTAMENT GREEK, which is designed as an inductive, 1-semester equivalent of NT Greek. My copy is on loan, so I can't look at it to tell you what I think about it. He gets the student right into the text (I John, I think) to teach the grammar. It's only $16 (retail), too.
 
Mounce's GREEK FOR THE REST OF US, which you mentioned, spends a lot of time on "phrasing" (as I recall from reading a pre-pub draft copy) -- but phrasing the ENGLISH translation, not the Greek text (which a student using this book wouldn't be qualified to do anyway). Phrasing is Mounce's technique for diagramming thought flow and main ideas. The book also relies somewhat on his Reverse Interlinear, which is a grammatically labeled NIV interlinear, but with the Greek word order changed to match the NIV text order.


Eric S. Weiss
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