[b-greek] Re: Teach Yourself's "New Testament Greek", by D. F. Hudson

From: borsarifamily@juno.com
Date: Wed Nov 14 2001 - 10:58:14 EST


That is actually another book. This one is part of the teach yourself
series. It's by D.F. Hudson.

The thing that makes this book so different from many of the other
beginner books is that it jumps straight into charts and declensions and
doesn't try to dance around them. I like charts, but I guess they tend to
scare most beginners. The trend seems to be assuming that beginners never
learned English grammar and to present the material like modern languages
are now being presented. This has been driving my son and I crazy. A
quote from him, "why don't they just explain it the right way the first
time?"

If anyone has gotten a strange e-mail from me, excuse me. I thought that
when I replied to a message it automatically went to the group, not just
the person who wrote the message.

Kathy in MA
[Kathleen Borsari--new list-members please take note: BG protocol
requires a full-name signature to be appended to messages sent
to the list. -cwc]

On Wed, 14 Nov 2001 09:28:53 -0500 "Patrick Narkinsky"
<patrick@extremehope.org> writes:
> I have also enjoyed (greatly) "Teach Yourself New Testament Greek" by
> Ian
> McNair. It takes a workbook approach, and I found that by applying
> myself
> to about 15 minutes a day in the workbook, I made significant
> process on
> being able to read the NT. My only complaint is that he substituted
> another
> term for "declension", which seemed to me to be just silly.
>
> Patrick
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Schmehl" <p.l.schmehl@worldnet.att.net>
> To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 8:34 PM
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Teach Yourself's "New Testament Greek", by D.
> F.
> Hudson
>
>
> > I'm surprised no one has mentioned Dr. Ward Powers' book, "Learn
> to Read
> the
> > Greek New Testament". I received my copy a while ago, and I'm
> sure Dr.
> > Powers has more copies for those who want one. He didn't ask for
> money,
> but
> > I suggest that you at least cover his postage, which was
> substantial in my
> > case. It has both Beginners and Intermediate Greek and comes with
> a
> > workbook that has the "answers" in the back.
> >
> > The description of the book, which may be found on the back of the
> textbook
> > as well as the workbook, is:
> > "This is a self-teaching guide and classroom textbook which takes
> complete
> > beginners in Greek, and leads them right through to where they
> start
> reading
> > the Greek New Testament for themselves - and understanding it."
> >
> > Paul Schmehl pauls@utdallas.edu
> > p.l.schmehl@worldnet.att.net
> > http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/
> >
> >
> > ---
> > B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
> > You are currently subscribed to b-greek as:
> [patrick@extremehope.org]
> > To unsubscribe, forward this message to
> leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> > To subscribe, send a message to
> subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> ---
> B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
> You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [Borsarifamily@juno.com]
> To unsubscribe, forward this message to
> leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> To subscribe, send a message to
> subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
>
>

---
B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek
You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com]
To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu


This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Mon Feb 11 2002 - 18:40:47 EST