[B-Greek] Comparison: Greek Tutuor and Master New Testament GreekCD-ROMs

Barry W. Hickey bhickey at mikrotec.com
Mon Mar 29 10:35:35 EST 2004


Thank you....I should have searched the archives first.  Actually, I did
look some time back when I first saw the new CD on www.christianbook.com,
but I suppose that was maybe last fall.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Terry and Gail Cook" <cookie99 at fuse.net>
To: "Barry W. Hickey" <bhickey at mikrotec.com>; <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Comparison: Greek Tutuor and Master New Testament
GreekCD-ROMs


> Barry,
> The following was posted to the group Dec 20, 2003 by Eric Weiss:
>
> Because I'm curious about helps for my Greek class/students,
> I wrote Ted Hildebrandt (e-mail) with questions about his new
> program (which you are thinking of buying) versus the old Greek
> Tutor (I have Hebrew Tutor). The following is from his replies.
> Since the box does not go into enough detail about the
> course/materials contents, I asked him directly:
>
> Eweiss,
>
> Basically the Mastering NT Greek has the old Gk Tutor program built into
> it. There are also 4 printable books developed to coordinate with the
> 28 chapters of the Gk Tutor interactive program (textbook, 350 pp;
> workbook 250 pp, a complete simple lexicon (every word in the NT) 100
> pages, Vocab builder down to 9x 70 pages) these are all printable in
> *.pdf format. I've also added an interactive 1 John 1-5 easy reader and
> John 1-5 easy reader, a vocabulary builder down to the words used 9x in
> the NT (1200 words) in the supplement. Thus it is a complete package
> having all the textbooks and interactive materials you need to learn
> first year Greek. My students were getting clobbered with high textbook
> costs and this solves that problem.
>
> Eric,
>
> Probably the grammar Mastering NT Greek is closest to is Machen's. Not
> sure how it fits with the other grammars. I used Mounce for a couple
> years and hated leaving the verbs until after chapter 15. In Mastering
> the Present verbs are introduced right away so sentences can be built
> rather than working with a noun only approach. Not sure about Greek to
> me. The chapters in Mastering are 1) Alphabet; 2) accents/syllables, 3)
> Present Active Indicative
> Verbs, 4) Second Declension nouns, 5) First Declension nouns, 6)
> Prepositions, 7) Adjectives; 8) Personal pronouns, 9) Middle/passive
> verbs, 10) Future verbs; 11) Demonstrative Pronouns, 12) Imperfect Verbs;
> 13) Third Declension
> nouns;14) Second Aorist Verbs; 15) First Aorist Verbs; 16) Aorist & Future
> Passives; 17) Contract Verbs; 18) Perfect Verbs; 19) Present
> Participles;20) Aorist Participles; 21) Perfect Participles; 22)
> Infinitives; 23)
> Subjunctive Verbs; 24) Imperative Verbs; 25) Mi Verbs; 26) Numbers and
> Interrogatives; 27) Clause types; and 28) Case Revisited (genitive and
> dative case options in a deeper way);
>
> Not sure how this synch's up with "Greek to me" The benefit of the
> interactive program is the computer talks to you showing you how the
> words are pronounced and can be clicked repeatedly until it is mastered.
> Hope this helps.
> Terry Cook
> sDg
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Barry W. Hickey" <bhickey at mikrotec.com>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:28 AM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Comparison: Greek Tutuor and Master New Testament
> GreekCD-ROMs
>
>
> Greetings...
>
> Can anyone offer a comparison of the two computer-based applications for
> learning New Testament Greek:  `Greek Tutor` and `Master New Testament
> Greek`?  Both works are by Ted Hildebrandt.
>
> 1) How do the two applications differ from each other?
>
> 2) Is either superior to the other?
>
> 3) Would someone already owning `Greek Tutor` benefit from the newer
`Master
> New Testament Greek` CD-ROM?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Barry W. Hickey
>
>
>
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