Description: The best-selling and most widely accepted New Testament Greek textbook has just gotten better. The author has made the book more user-friendly and offers options to professors, particularly enabling them to introduce Greek verbs earlier as well as offering some made-up sentences to challenge the students.
Review Summary: Excellent Way to Learn Beginning Biblical Greek
Date: 2008-02-13
Details: This book has proven to be an excellent way for me to learn enough Biblical Greek to at least have an understanding of why different interpretations of scripture are debated among scholars. I am a lay reader of Biblical Greek and Hebrew and this more or less beginner course was very helpful. Prof. Mounce keeps the reader encouraged with his count of NT Greek word occurrences and a tally of the number of words in the NT one can read based on vocabulary progress from chapter to chapter. Why, after only learning the vocabulary of 8 chapters and only 72 Greek words, I can read over 50% of the words in a Greek NT. (Of course, that means I must skip around to read half of the NT and I am reading words like "and" and "the" etc. a lot, but it is a fun way to keep up with progress. The exegetical insights at the beginning of each chapter are very interesting ways of gaining a sense of the reasons for varying interpetations of scripture.
Review Summary: Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar
Date: 2008-01-09
Details: I highly recommend this book for pastors who don't know Greek but who want to learn the basics of the language to help them study their Bible for sermons.
Review Summary: Great koine Greek text!!!
Date: 2008-01-02
Details: From the beginning you use the bible! It is a wonderful course and the CD that comes in the back of the book is puts you right there in the class room. You will need the workbook. He has a website with extras and the answers to the workbook. I have studied 7 languages and attempted Greek once before, this text is wonderful. He has a novel way of presenting material with a fraction of the memorization of traditional methods. Well executed program. I am translating after 3 weeks.
Review Summary: Well done
Date: 2007-11-26
Details: Those two words describe this work. It is put together well, and easy to follow.
Review Summary: Used in Seminaries!!
Date: 2007-10-24
Details: I am in a 500 level greek class right now and we are using this book for our text and it is working wonderfully. This is my first interaction with greek , however I am picking it up faster than any other language I have attempted. I have studied both Spanish and German and Greek has been easier than both of them. This is not to say that learning greek is easy, the preface of the book says that the only way to learn is by continuous study, AND HE'S RIGHT! I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn the bible in its original language. Get the Workbook too, its a big help!
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