Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar: Fourth Edition

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Zondervan Academic, Feb 5, 2019 - Religion - 544 pages

Clear. Understandable. Carefully organized. Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce is the standard textbook for colleges and seminaries. Since its initial publication in 1993 its integrated approach has helped more than 250,000 students learn New Testament Greek.

The fourth edition of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar has been updated throughout based on continuing feedback from professors, students, self-learners, and homeschoolers, making it even more effective for today's students. Other improvements have been made based on recent developments in scholarship.

The key to the effectiveness of Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar in helping students learn is in how it introduces them to the language. Students learn about the features of the Greek language in a logical order, with each lesson building upon the one before it. Unnecessary obstacles that discourage students and hinder progress are removed, such as rote memorization of endless verbal paradigms. Instead, students receive encouragement along the way to assure them they are making the necessary progress. Detailed discussions are also included at key junctures to help students grasp important concepts.

By the time students have worked their way through Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar they will have learned:

  • The Greek Alphabet
  • Vocabulary for words occurring 50 times or more in the Greek New Testament
  • The Greek noun system
  • The Greek verbal system, including indicative and nonindicative verbs, and participles

A robust suite of learning aids is available for purchase to be used alongside the textbook to help students excel in their studies. These include a workbook, video lectures for each chapter featuring the author, flashcards keyed to vocabulary in each chapter, a laminated quick study sheet with key concepts, and audio of the vocabulary for each chapter to aid in acquisition.

 

Contents

Noun System
24
Introduction to Verbs
27
Nominative and Accusative Article
33
7
52
9
70
Adjectives
79
Track One or Track Two?
91
Third Declension
115
First Aorist Active and Middle Indicative
250
Aorist and Future Passive Indicative
262
Perfect Indicative
275
Imperfective Present Adverbial Participles
298
Perfective Aorist Adverbial Participles
315
Adjectival Participles
330
Combinative Perfect Participles and Genitive Absolutes
337
Subjunctive
358

Demonstrative PronounsAdjectives
128
Relative Pronoun
140
Indicative Verb System
146
Present Active Indicative
166
Contract Verbs
172
Present MiddlePassive Indicative
190
Future Active and Middle Indicative
196
Verbal Roots Patterns 2
208
Chapters 2125
221
Second Aorist Active and Middle Indicative
239
Infinitive
372
Imperative
382
Indicative of δίδωμι
389
Nonindicative of δίδωμι and Conditional Sentences
397
ἵστημι τίθημι δείκνυμι and Odds n Ends
406
Where Do You Go from Here?
414
Appendix Table of Contents
417
Vocabulary Words by Frequency
463
Index
505
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About the author (2019)

William D. Mounce (PhD, Aberdeen University) lives as a writer in Washougal, Washington. He is the President of BiblicalTraining.org, a non-profit organization offering world-class educational resources for discipleship in the local church. See BillMounce.com for more information. Formerly he was a preaching pastor, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of the bestselling Greek textbook, Basics of Biblical Greek, and many other resources. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and is serving on the NIV translation committee.

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