[B-Greek] hi everyone

Raymond Regalado vantillian at nifty.com
Wed Aug 17 10:53:46 EDT 2005


Sam wrote:
>> Beginner Books:
>> One book that seems to be very popular is "Basics of Biblical Greek
>> Grammar" by William D. Mounce.
>
> This is the text we used for first-year Greek.  It was a decent
> textbook, but I have some doubts the usefulness of the 5-case
> system it presents.  Once you get past introductory Greek, you
> will need to understand the 8-case system - otherwise, a vast
> amount of existing material will be confusing to you.  So why
> learn two case systems when you could just learn one?

It seems though that it is the 8-case system which has largely been 
"discredited" and is going into disuse.  My understanding is that it 
was never popular outside a small circle of Baptists that followed the 
tradition of A.T. Robertson.  The 5-case system is the one more widely 
accepted.

>> At any rate, there seems to be a pretty wide range of recommendations 
>> so
>> I need a little guidance.  I work in the technical industry and I am
>> very accustomed to reading very technical books to learn certain 
>> subject
>> matter.

I've read 7 or 8 introductory grammar books, and I think Clayton Croy's 
A Primer of Biblical Greek is among the best for a "deductive 
approach".  For an "inductive" approach, the 3rd edition of John 
Dobson's "Learn New Testment Greek" which just came out in April this 
year looks very very interesting (I'm planning to use it to teach a 
Greek class at church next month).

But I'm no scholar, and these are just my unscholarly opinions. ;-)

Warm Regards,

Raymond Regalado
Tokyo




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