Porter, Stanley E., Jeffery T. Reed, and Matthew Brook O’Donnell. Fundamentals of New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010.
I have a few friends who are starting to study Koine Greek in seminary this semester. I decided to put together a study group for them in part because I think it will help me develop my skills in the language if I spend some time explaining it and rehashing the terms for myself. The textbook they are using is Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2009) by William D. Mounce. I thought it would be good to purchase a different textbook in order to get another perspective so I bought Fundamentals of New Testament Greek by Stanley E. Porter, et al. I’ve heard some good things about it.
What other grammars or resources do you think could be useful for supplementing the learning of this group?
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David Alan Black!! Get his book Linguistics for Students of NT Greek and It’s Still Greek to Me. Intro to NT Textual Criticism. 🙂
@Brian: Good recommendations! I do have Black’s It’s Still Greek to Me but I hadn’t seen the book on linguistics. I will have to look that up.
Nothing can touch the Enchiridion — it’s a classic!
Isn’t that in Latin? Wouldn’t that be problematic for non-Latin speakers/reader? 🙂
No, it’s actually in English, but out-of-print. 🙂
Then someone needs to put it on the internet for free! Where’s Google Books when you need them?
“Greek To Me” by the Stories. That’s what we used for first year Greek at Multnomah; Dr. Wheeler’s class.
@Bobby: That does look like a useful vocabulary memorizing resource.
Brian,
Yes, there is vocab (Trenchard definitely is the standard for Vocab–which we used for 2nd year with Koivisto); but it is helpful for learning the principle parts, vowels, and all the paradigms. It is definitely a beginners book, but that sounds like just what you’re looking for.
I think the Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar is a great intro book as well; it definitely has more substance to it than does the Stories’ book. But the Stories’ book, I think, is great for making learning Greek memorable and, to the degree that this is possible, less overwhelming.
I wish there was a preview on Amazon.com. I should check the library here on campus to look at it.
the Enchiridion should be on BibleWorks…
@Brian: Good tip, I’ll have to look.
@Brian L, I’ve found Intermediate NT Greek: A Linguistic and Exegetical Approach by Richard A. Young to be good. It’s a good supplement.
Brian, I’m surprised Western doesn’t have it; weird. Multnomah is close by 😉 .
I used Dave Black’s Learn to Read New Testament Greek. I also went through Mounce’s intro text later, but still find that Black’s book is easier to learn with.
I’d try the JACT Reading Greek series. It’s designed for UK teenagers learning greek at school (which is where I used it) but has additional guides for self study etc.
The two nice things about starting with a classical greek course are:
-NT greek is simpler (optatives drop out except in set forms, some irregular verbs change to a regular form)
-You are going to make bad mistakes when you’re starting to read greek. If you can keep your terrible misunderstandings to misinterpreting Thucidides and Homer you’ll save yourself and those around you lots of trouble
@T.C. : Thanks for the recommendation. I will look that up.
@Bobby: Surprisingly, unless I am looking in the wrong place, the section for books on Greek at Western’s library is a bit empty. I couldn’t even find Mounce!
@Matt: Black’s does seem to be laid out a bit better. I like Porter’s better for the same reason, even if it is more complex and has more content than Mounce.
@Simon: Thanks for the recommendation!