[B-Greek] Further Study

Suttles, Andrew C. (GRC-DSI0) andrew.c.suttles at nasa.gov
Tue Apr 7 14:15:06 EDT 2009


I am a new student, so take my advice with a grain of Salt (ALS), but the following site has some good, proven, FREE resources from Biblical, but especially Attic Greek grammar, reading, and composition.

http://www.textkit.com/greek_grammar.php

Another, possibly better, option, would be to start reading the church fathers, LXX, Josephus, or Philo.  Others can help you with selection.  I really think reading and more reading is better than learning grammar.  No matter how much grammar you know, you must do a lot of reading to internalize the language.

Andrew Suttles
Cleveland, OH

>-----Original Message-----
>From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org 
>[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Charles Johnson
>Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 1:46 PM
>To: Randall Buth
>Cc: B Greek
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Further Study
>
>Terry, thank you for the bibliography. When I say I can read, 
>I mean that I can without too much difficulty take Greek and 
>make English out of it. There are many times, though, when I 
>do not comprehend the "why" behind the "what." I cannot always 
>explain why a particular voice, tense, or mood was chosen, or 
>why a certain word ordering. In fact, my classes focused very 
>little on word order.
>
>Dr. Buth, I tried. It didn't go so well. I have done very 
>limited composition (especially oral). I also have no 
>background in Classical Greek, a detriment I'm sure. It was a 
>useful exercise in showing me I have a long way to go. It 
>strikes me, though, that I have to improve my skill at 
>understanding what's really going on in the Greek language 
>before I can replicate it myself. Any suggestions?
>
>On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Randall Buth 
><randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >I am looking for recommendations for further study
>> resources/programs/readings. I am a seminarian who has 
>completed about 
>> 27 credit hours of Biblical Greek. I am comfortable reading 
>in almost 
>> all of the NT (Hebrews is still hard) and have a grammatical 
>> understanding at about the level of Wallace's *Greek Grammar Beyond 
>> the Basics*. I am particularly interested in resources that 
>will help 
>> me apprehend the grammar more precisely.
>> Thanks for all the wisdom,
>> Charlie Johnson>
>>
>> It is important to discovrer what one doesn't know so that it gets 
>> filled in.
>> Try speaking your next three thoughts to yourself in Koine 
>Greek, and 
>> see if you don't discover something.
>> Randall Buth
>>
>>
>> --
>> Randall Buth, PhD
>> www.biblicalulpan.org
>> randallbuth at gmail.com
>> Biblical Language Center
>> Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
>>
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