[B-Greek] 2nd Year Helps

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Mon Apr 21 20:39:44 EDT 2008


If you are reading Robertson's grammar you don't need
  much else "help" in regard to syntax, certainly not Wallace
  who who in my opinion is too wordy for what he delivers.  The
  best bang for your time is Zerwick's Biblical Greek which is
  short but is great for both exegesis and grammar.  
   
  What you are really going to need help in is vocabulary and
  nothing compares to Warren Trenchard's Complete Vocabulary
  Guide to the New Testament.  It is very important early on to
  learn how often words occur in the NT and what the NT cognates
  are.  Then you need help in recognizing verb forms and some 
  rare nouns and there I would go with Mounce's Morphology of
  Biblical Greek.  
   
  I do think reading through and doing the exercises for as many
  NT grammars as you can find is the next best thing to reading
  the Greek NT.  And as much as I think Attic is pushed way too
  much on this list, reading through several classical grammars is
  also helpful.  Skip graded readers and instead get the NET diglot
  and a Reader's edition to save you the time from flipping through
  other books.
   
  It's sounds to me like you are right on track.  Be advised that the
  second year of Greek generally takes about thirty years to complete. 
   
  George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
  I'm relieved to see that you have made use of other grammars than Machen since I found his grammar extremely incomplete. Mounce is used by many who seem to appreciate it though I must confess that I've never looked at it and therefore will not comment. D & M is an old standard, perhaps a little long in the tooth since it is relatively short. While I do have it and have looked at it on occassion, I'm not really familiar with it. Robertson is to be highly recommended in my opinion. You might add to these Baur, Debrunner, Funk _A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature_. I would also recommend that you purchase Smyth's _Greek Grammar_. This is a classical grammar rather than a Koine grammar, but it does frequently prove helpful. I would also recommend that you purchase Holmes _The Apostolic Fathers_. Try to avoid looking too frequently or too early in your reading to the English. I have the electronic version which
comes in separate files for Greek and English so I'm not sure whether it is on facing pages or in a separate section or perhaps even in a separate volume. If the English is on the facing page, cover it while you read the Greek then only refer to it afterwards.


george
gfsomsel




 search for truth, hear truth, 
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the truth till death.



- Jan Hus
_________



----- Original Message ----
From: Will Dilbeck 
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 2:00:50 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] 2nd Year Helps

Hello,

I am finishing up Machen's grammar, with the help of Mounce's grammar, Dana
& Mantey, A.T. Robertson, etc., and I was wondering what were some good 2nd
year resources. I will be learning on my own on, so any helps in that
department would be appreciated as well.

Thanks,
Will


____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and 
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
---
B-Greek home page: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek
B-Greek mailing list
B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-greek


       
---------------------------------
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now.


More information about the B-Greek mailing list