[B-Greek] Mounce versus Croy

Eric S. Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 8 09:06:29 EDT 2011


Having used Mounce and Croy for informal taught-at-church NT Greek classes, 

I think Croy is pretty good, though I remember liking Mounce's morphology 

emphasis, but I'm kind of geeky in terms of wanting to know how and why words 

are formed the way they are, etc.

My preference for learning the most practical information in the least amount of 

time would still be GREEK TO ME (GTM) by Cullen I. K. Story and J. Lyle Story. 

I haven't looked at any new 1st-year NT Greek grammars for several years now, 

so GTM may have some competitors, but with GTM you can learn all the essential 
grammar and twice the vocabulary of Mounce in 2/3 the time. And that gets the 
students into the Greek New Testament text on their own faster than anything I 
know of. Not having to keep looking up words in a lexicon or having to look at 

charts of paradigms, because you have mnemonically implanted these things 

in your mind, you can begin reading large parts of the NT after you've completed 

the course.


My problem now with GTM is that I'm a convert to Randall Buth's Phonemic 

Koinê pronunciation, and the GTM memory system depends on Erasmian. Short 

of redoing all of the Storys' picture cards and grammar pictures with a Koinê 

pronunciation - and forgetting about the audio-visual CD - I guess I'd use GTM to 

teach the class whereby the students would thoroughly internalize the vocabulary 

and paradigms, and then present the Koinê pronunciation and encourage them to 

switch as painlessly as they could. 
 
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Eric S. Weiss 


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