[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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