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Title: Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0-310-25087-0 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $41.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.44 (36 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Monumental Work in Greek Grammar:
Comment: I recently started studying Koine Greek (about 7 months ago). My first grammar was a grammar I bought for my PC. I enjoyed it and learned much from it in little time. Later on though, it got quite "fuzzy," if you would, and some of the grammar (declensions, etc.) sorta slowed me down majorly. I have had a class in french, one year of German, and two years of Spanish so I knew a little about foreign languages, but still, learning Greek became quite difficult to me for a while. THEN I went and bought Mounce's book, Basics of Biblical Greek, and I am currently reading it.
Mounce has a very unique way of teaching Koine Greek that I have never seen in any other Grammars of any kind. Also, as far as I have seen, he is quite conservative, which I was happy to see (though he may not be as conservative as I am regarding the Bible versions). Though some things in his book are hard to get through (the key is to memorize, apply, use, etc. so you don't forget), still he is about the easiest one to learn from.
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Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Greek Grammar
Comment: I am one of Dr. Mounce's students. I studied Greek with him in the 98-99 school year and I still have retained almost all of what I learned through this book and Dr. Mounce. The book is informative and easy to use and study.
The CD ROM is excellent as well, and is a good tool for review.
If you want to learn Biblical Greek, but don't want to memorize the many, many paradigms that the traditional method requires, you should get this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Perfect NT Greek grammar for the self-learner
Comment: This is an excellent NT Greek grammar. Unlike some Greek grammars (notably Hansen and Quinn's Attic grammar, one I have experience with), this is ideally suited for the self-learner. Here's why:
- Mounce tries to minimize the amount of memorization required. Greek is a difficult language, no two ways about it: but the way the material is presented can make learning easier or harder. For those of us who come at it as adults, memorization is difficult. Some grammars require massive amounts of rote memorization; Mounce takes instead the tack of giving you a number of rules to apply, then only requiring memorization where the rules don't apply. Using this method, the amount of memorization is cut dramatically, and the effort required is reduced accordingly.
- To ease the remaining memorization, Mounce includes lots of good vocabulary helps. Unfortunately, vocabulary acquisition is usually another rote memorization affair. Mounce includes either derivations or cognates in other languages (drawing in some cases on Metzger's "Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek"), or silly little memorization aids. An example of the latter is Mounce's memorable word play on the word ELPIS (="hope"): "Some people HOPE that ELVIS did not die." I think I can safely say I will never forget the meaning of ELPIS.
- In many ways (including the previous two items) Mounce includes the fruit of his years of experience as a teacher of New Testament Greek. Many books that I'm sure would be just fine when learning from a professor completely fall apart when an autodidact (like myself) attempts to use them. With this book, it's almost as good as Mounce being right there.
- Although I would not have believed it, Mounce has successfully integrated devotional sections at the beginning of most chapters. A combination textbook/devotional? Yes, believe it or not. The section for chapter 10, for example, is simply amazing - building off John 1:14, KAI hO LOGOS SARX EGENETO ("And the Word became flesh.") This answers another big problem for autodidacts, which is that you don't have much of an inducement to continue when the going gets tough. These devotional sections (I am assuming a Christian student, of course) add greatly to your experience and make you look forward to new chapters.
The end result is that this book makes it possible to learn New Testament Greek on your own to just about the same depth as you would get at a seminary. That's an amazing feat in itself.
But be aware, this book has no exercises in it. Rather, you need to buy the companion workbook, which has all the exercises.
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Title: Graded Reader of Biblical Greek, A by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0310205824 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 04 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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Title: Greek New Testament (With Dictionary) by B. Aland, K. Aland, J. Karavidopoulos ISBN: 3438051133 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.99 |
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Title: Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament by Warren C. Trenchard ISBN: 0310226953 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Morphology of Biblical Greek, The by William D. Mounce ISBN: 0310226368 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 21 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics by Daniel B. Wallace ISBN: 0310218950 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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