[B-Greek] Best book/appendix for Comprehensive Chart of Forms?

Ken Penner kpenner at stfx.ca
Thu Sep 24 11:34:22 EDT 2009


Mounce's Morphology of Biblical Greek is complete but large. It would be appropriate for an intermediate class that emphasized morphology.
Ward Powers' Learn to Read the Greek New Testament is similarly helpful for understanding why the forms are the way they are, but harder to use.

But certainly check out Kalos: http://www.kalos-software.com/ 

Ken

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What are people's favorite chart/book to use for a COMPLETE list of forms. I'm looking for something that includes full paradigms of all the nouns, adjective, pronouns, numbers, verbs, irregular verbs, etc.. It's for an intermediate class who really has had no "go to" list of charts, just an incomplete and hard to read beginning grammar appendices' "list of forms". Preferably, it has  side-by-side comparisons of different moods for the verb, esp. the indicative and subjunctive. I have not seen the out of print "Enchiridion". Personally, I use Smyth, but that is overkill for many. Mounce could be a good goto grammar but the indexes are so poor and often when I have told intermediate students to find a form in the back, it is missing. Preferably, the book is a standalone list, available in print at a low cost.  It would also be great for it to be the size of a USB GNT - I would not mind having a list myself in the back of my GNT when I am stumped.

Here is a list of ones I have looked at.

Smyth - the best, but not Koine and not a short book 
Mastronarde (Introduction to Attic Greek) - one of the best, but classical
Kroy (Primer) - just cardinal numbers 1-4, no chart of vowel contractions, not grouped together chartlike - every paradigm is another entry
Mounce (BBG) - very good, just number 1 EIS declined, moods not side by side; just the relative pronoun hOS hH hO - none of the compound pronouns such as OUDEIS; Pronouns: Just ΕGO and SU (not UMETEROS,HMETEROS, AUTOS)
Summers (Essentials of NT Greek)
Baugh (Primer)
Paine (Beginning Greek)
Colwell/Tune (A Beginner's Reader's Grammar)
Buth (Living Koine)
Rico (Polis)
Geannikis: Greek Paradigm Handbook (2008) Looks too big (not compact enough - too much page turning and is classical)
Wallace: Basics of Biblical Syntax (seems to have no list of forms)

Online Lists of Paradigms:
Mastronarde:Ancient Greek Tutorials
Smyth: Perseus Philologic CCEL Textkit (pdf)
Funk (not completed)
Eton Greek Project

Louis Sorenson
 		 	   		  
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