[B-Greek] A fork in the road

Dan Starcevich dan.star at comcast.net
Sat Oct 23 17:38:03 EDT 2004


 Johnny,

Great job working through this text on your own. This is quite an
undertaking and I really encourage you to press on with this. In my opinion
learning Greek and Hebrew were the two most important things I did at
seminary. Being able to learn, and to continue to learn, these languages
have been a special gift from God for me. I pray that you will also find
learning Greek to be another token of grace in your life.

With regard to whether you should take the fork leading to verbs or not, I
can tell you that when I went through the book it was chapter by chapter.
Mounce's approach, to first learn the nouns then the verbs, is fairly novel
but seems to be effective. I think he offers the fork in order to
accommodate those who might disagree with his method. Going straight through
the book provided me with a good, systematic approach that worked well for
me. So, I would encourage you to just go on to chapter 10, 11, 12 etc.
rather than skip to 15 and come back later.

God Bless,

Dan

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Subject: [B-Greek] A fork in the road

As I have mentioned I am trying to guide myself through Willam D. Mounce
Basics of Biblical Greek and the workbook.  In this text you come a fork in
the road after Chapeter 9.  (I am starting chapter 9 now).  UP to this point
we have nouns, prepositions and chapter 9 is on adjectives.  After Chapter
9, the student has to make a choice.  You can to chapter 15 and be inroduce
to the basics of verbs for a few chapters or you can with chapter 10 and
nouns.  I have a tendency to jump 15 and start the introduction to verb; but
without some guidance I am not sure that is the correct decision.  If anyone
is familiar with this text, what do you feel would be the best way to
proceed and why?

Thank you for any consideration you might give to my quandary.

Grace and Peace

Johnny Evans
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