[B-Greek] Keeping up with Greek after the first year
Stephen Carlson
stemmatic at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 09:28:18 EDT 2011
Thanks for all your comments, both on and off list, about keeping up
with Greek after the first year, especially over the summer. They've
been helpful.
I know that the best advice is to read Greek regularly. I stress and
reiterate that advice to my students. Unfortunately that advice can
come across as a little vague, and some specific recommendations would
be helpful.
There are some issues, mainly resources, I'd like to focus on, and ask
for your thinking about:
1. Beginning/Intermediate Grammars. Our textbook (Mounce) isn't
amenable as a reference grammar. I'm think of recommending something
like Brooks & Winbery's Syntax (which I think is in the sweet spot
between too big and too small) or Greenlee's Concise Exegetical
Grammar. Are there any others in this category?
2. For more advanced grammars, I'm still a big fan of BDF, though the
student should also have Smyth or perhaps Goodwin in conjunction. I
know some people like Wallace, but I find it's coverage uneven and it
just frustrates me a lot.
3. Lexicons. All my students have the NA27 with the dictionary in
the back. I think it is adequate for just reading along, but
naturally I would recommend BDAG and the on-line LSJ.
4. Readers. Some students might be more oriented to readers. Both
Mounce and Decker have Koine Readers. Someone recently posted a
Patristic reader. I think Carl's page recommended some Attic readers.
5. If money and time are no object (unlikely due to Duke's Field
Education requirements), I might recommend a camp for learning Greek
like Randy Buth's.
6. Bible software programs? Do I need to go there?
Stephen
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Stephen C. Carlson
Graduate Program in Religion
Duke University
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