[B-Greek] Mounce or Black in Addition to Dobson's Book?

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Tue May 24 19:55:38 EDT 2005


I would recommend Black over Mounce if you've already read through Dobson (which, incidentally, was just published in a 3rd edition (hardbound), now with accents, some changes to the text, and an audio CD that covers the whole book, I believe). Black is very succinct and introduces you to linguistic terminology. On the other hand, Mounce's forte is morphology - you will learn from Mounce how/why verbal and noun endings are the way they are (N dropping off, S between two vowels disappearing, etc.), which is nice to know information - however, I think Mounce's book is a bit verbose, as well as 10 chapters longer than Black. Since Dobson is light on learning grammatical terms, Black will introduce you to terms you'll need to know when reading, e.g., Wallace. 
 
You could simultaneously work through A SUMMER GREEK READER which in 12 weeks (1 chapter a day, 6 per week - I'd do 2 a day and be done in 6 weeks) will increase your vocabulary to every word that occurs 20x or more, plus every day give you a NT passage to read and translate, and it's inexpensive, too ($15 on my copy).
 
Black's IT'S STILL GREEK TO ME is a lightweight guide to Intermediate Greek, plus a review of stuff you've already learned - you may be able to read it in lieu of his first-year grammar. And it, too, is inexpensive.
 
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Eric S. Weiss


		
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