A lot of different books could have been included, but I wanted to give a sampling of the great instructional guides and aids out there as well as some of the lexica.
1. N. Marinone. All the Greek Verbs. 2016. 1st ed. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
2. Herbert Weir Smyth. Greek Grammar. 1956. Revised by Gordon M. Messing. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
3. A.T. Robertson. A Grammar of the Greek New Testament in the Light of Historical Research. 4th ed. Nashville: Broadman Press. ISBN: 9780805413083, 0805413081.
4. M. G. Balme, Gilbert Lawall, and James Morwood. Athenaze : An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I-II. 2015 Third ed. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. James Hope Moulton, W. F. Howard and Nigel Turner. A Grammar of New Testament Greek. 4 vols. 1908–1976. Edinburgh: T&T Clark.
6. Donald J. Mastronarde. Introduction to Attic Greek. 1993. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press.
7. James Morwood. The Oxford Grammar of Classical Greek. 2002. Oxford; New York. Oxford University Press.
8. Albert Rijksbaron. The Syntax and Semantics of the Verb in Classical Greek : An Introduction. 2006. 3rd ed. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press.
9. William D. Mounce. Morphology of Biblical Greek. 1994. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
10. James A. Brooks and Carlton L. Winbery. A Morphology of New Testament Greek: A Review and Reference Grammar. 1994. Lanham: University Press of America.
11. BDAG-Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. 2000. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
12. Joint Association of Classical Teachers Greek Course. Reading Greek. 2007. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
13. Hardy Hansen and Gerald M. Quinn. Greek: An Intensive Course. 1992. 2nd Revised Edition. 1992. Fordham University Press.
14. J.P. Louw and E.A. Nida. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament: Based on Semantic Domains. 1999. 2nd Ed. 2 Volume Set. United Bible Societies.
I learned Greek with this book:
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I recommend it to everyone who wants to learn Greek, although I can't really compare it to other options since that's the only one I used.
Thanks Roman. I've got that book and it is a good one that's used widely. I have also written about Black here: he's a great Greek instructor.
ReplyDeleteWhere I teach, they once used the text by Machen, but now the Greek professor uses William Mounce's introductory Greek work.
There are many fine books. For Attic Greek, I love Mastronarde's intro. Another factor is whether you're going to have an instructor or study independently. Black would be real helpful then.
I’m self taught in Greek thanks to You, Wallace, beduhn and others..
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, it's always good to see people learning Greek on their own. I know it's not easy for most of us.
ReplyDeleteI used Black's book to learn it by myself, it probably took me twice as long as it should have to become comfortable with Greek, always better to do it with a teacher, but still, one does what one can.
ReplyDeleteRoman, I have nothing but commendation for autodidacts. I started reading Greek and Latin on my own before studying with an instructor. Having a teacher expedited things, but you can learn on your own with the right tools. Black is a great tool.
ReplyDeleteIt’s such a different language, I’m fortunate I spoke a language with grammatical gender when I was younger
ReplyDeleteAnd know some Spanish, so it’s slightly easier but it’s still tough
I want to do Hebrew one day… but that’s even harder