[B-Greek] Keeping up with Greek after the first year
Alex Poulos
apviper at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 17:49:26 EDT 2011
I'll throw in a 'vote' for the Whitacre's Patristic Reader. Granted, I've
been more inclined to study Patristics rather than the NT lately, but it's
an excellent resource. For me, I would often get stuck on a verse until I
remembered what it said in English. Reading something I hadn't read quite a
bit in English side-stepped that problem for me.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> Graduate Program in Religion
> Duke University
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