[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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> Duke University
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