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"Helpful for Attic & Koine ( N.T.) Greek"
This is a helpful, portable chart, more appealing & clearer to read than the Quickstudy Guide Latin chart, its opposite number. It matches the Mounce grammar books, but a much better book to learn N.T. Greek as well as an intro to Attic is:
"The Elements of New Testament Greek, Third Edition" (Book and Audio CD) by Jeremy Duff. This however does not have a companion chart, hence the need for this chart. So you might as well get it.


"What a God-send"
As a newbie to Greek, I had written dozens of little notecards with lots of hints and helps which were strewn all over my work surface. Once I got this study guide, I was able to file all of them. What a tremendous help! Thank you, Dr. Mounce!

"In a Glance"
Handy Dandy Tool for anyone who wants a serviceable guide to the Greek Language and all its little special details.

"Greek for the Rest of Us - a great beginning into the world of the Bible"
As everything Bill Mounce writes (I have bought them all), this is a fine, well put-together book to introduce the main language of the New Testament to new learners. It can serve as a first step in schools/seminaries for those without any previous language exposure, as a kind of up ramp rather than a staircase. Of itself, with a lexicon (Greek/English dictionary), it will let many beginning students, clergy without Greek studies and interested laymen to read and get a basic understanding of the language in which most of the New Testamant was written. They would also be better equiped to use various word study and Bible commentaries presented in English, but which use/show the Greek words behind the English. Bill has put in a special section that concentrates on this useful area. As with others of his books, he has included PC based resources to make learning easier.
One of its other valuable aspects is the excellent review of basic grammar for those who have never seen an inflected language with its many case endings and verb tenses and moods, as Old English used to have, but which it has mostly lost. Few students have studied Latin these days (it was required in my high school and was of great use to me as a bridge to Spanish and a deeper understanding of Latin-derived English words). Older Greek texts assumed that students knew Latin and taught accordingly. Dr. Mounce does not assume this and so his book will be great way to ease into Greek, even giving the reader a better understanding of English.

In summary, this book fills the gap between a typical modern high school level of language study and the more difficult first year college/seminary beginning Greek course very well. It will allow a student who wanted more to breeze through the first months of a standard seminary Greek course, while the overview of the whole language it gives would make ongoing learning much easier. I highly recommend it as a required book for all Christian seminary students as well as for those who are trying to learn more about God's Word on their own. It will allow both a window into the language in which Christ's Words were first recorded and the start of a wonderful journey into the beautiful language of Greek. He even gives a chapter on an overview of Hebrew. I highly recommend it, as well as it logical follow-on, Basics of Biblical Greek, also by Dr. Mounce, with all of its workbooks and vocabulary guides (all on Amazon). Of the many Greek texts I have, this pair is the best for today's student. A last comment: this is a good place to start for the student of Classical Greek as well, and for the same reasons. By the way, Bill Mounce makes learning Greek (almost) fun.

Karl Schulte
a life long Greek student.
Our Savior's LC
Jeff City, MO

"Great "Cheat Sheet'"
This is a wonderful way to quickly recall important ponts about New Testament Greek without feeling like you are cheating. It is a great reference guide that is pre-punched and fits easily into a notebook for easy and quick reference.

 

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"Excellent reference tool", I am a student in intermediate Greek, and I frequently use this review sheet to remind myself of key concepts when I am translating passages. I find it extremely helpful, and would easily recommend it for anyone studying the Greek language.

"The Best in Class", The entire study package of Basics of Biblical Greek which includes the textbook, the study guide, the vocabulary cards, the summary sheet, and the lecture CD's is a blessed fruit of a long, thoughtful, meticulous, and high-tech labor of one of the world's best New Testament Greek scholars. I have to admit I have not studied Greek from other professors, but after studying Mounce, I simply can not imagine a better way to teach students an introduction to Biblical Greek than the one Prof. Mounce implements in this study packet. The structure and methodology are so impressively organized that I believe, without trying to diminish the role of an instructor, one can study by himself or herself without taking the class at a seminary. From start to finish, Prof. Mounce designs the lessons with solid exegesis skills as the goal in mind. He wastes no time but immediately exposes students with translation exercises using real Scripture passages in the study guide, even early in the first few chapters when he barely starts with nouns.

The lessons are divided into three major parts; nouns, adjectives and verbs. Each chapter begins with exegetical insights related to the topic being taught in that particular chapter. He then moves on by explaining the English and Greek forms. The nouns and adjectives are not too bad. They are usually divided into three types of declensions. While the nouns usually take on one of the three declensions, the most common configuration of adjectives is either 3-1-3 or 2-1-2 where the first, second and third numbers indicate the declension type for masculine, feminine and neuter genders, respectively. There are some discussions on special-case nouns having slightly abnormal endings; pant and ent, for examples. Now verbs are considerably more challenging because they not only have more numerous categories and rules, but the biggest obstacles are the tense stems and when they form the real verbs through a combination of augments, tense-formatives, connecting vowels, and personal endings. The trouble can be illustrated by comparing it to having to memorize the English present, past and perfect tenses of irregular and regular verbs which the Greek version has six; present, future active, aorist active and passive, perfect active and passive, instead of three in English. And each of these six stems has different forms not only depending on the person and number, but also on the voices; active, middle, and passive. On top of these, there is another parameter, called aspect, where these verbs take on other forms, the indicative covered in the early chapters of the verbs, subjunctive, infinitive and imperative. Some are similar if not the same as the indicatives, which make them even harder to distinguish which one is which. Here Prof. Mounce reminds students to always watch for the contexts. Context is your best friend when it comes to translation. There is no easy way of getting around this issue completely except in my view, to get the Greek Morphology text, also by Mounce. At the end of some chapters, there is coverage on extended materials that deal with special cases, additional rules in translation, contraction and morphology.

The summary sheet consists of all important rules involving word formation, verb-ending charts, and all the forms of frequently used verbs. It serves as a handy guide for students when doing the translation so they don't have to flip through the pages of the textbook. Some flipping of pages is inevitable, though, because the last few pages of the textbook has the list of major lexicons.

There are two types of drills in the study guide. The first is chapter-by-chapter review where students are asked to parse ten words in a table having the forms that have been covered up to that chapter. Next, there is a warm-up translation section consisting of seven short phrases or sentences to be translated before the real translation exercise begins with twenty sentences; some are long ones. From my experience, I sometimes had a headache after completing the translation work due to the intensity it involves in figuring out not only what the words mean, but also their forms, and how to restructure the sentence in English format that both are understandable and make sense. The second type of drill is the exam-type where the test materials are combined every five chapters. The tasks include parsing, grammar rules, and translations usually from a New Testament passage.

As in any other languages, learning Greek requires extra memory power, but not brute-force memorization of every single word indiscriminately. Prof. Mounce always warns students only to memorize special-case words and rules such as endings and contractions, instead of every single word with all its garden variety of forms. Excellent advise.

Needless to say, I delightfully endorse Prof. Mounce as your virtual Greek instructor. If you decide to homeschool yourself, you can purchase the complete combo set at teknia dot com. I don't think Amazon sell the lecture CD set. But even if you are taking the class at the seminary, I don't see any harm for you to buy the combo set anyway, though you probably won't need the lecture CD's provided you have an excellent instructor.



"Handy "cheat sheet"....", I have found this to be a handy help with Koine Greek. It contains a great deal of useful information in a sturdy, durable folder. It fits quite well into the front or back of a three ring binder along with one's class notes. The font is small and crowded, but, afterall, this is a "cheat sheet". Generally, I think it is safe to say that this guide has most of the things that one might need help with as a student.

"Nice to have...", I have found this little cheat sheet very helpful. As one reviewer mentioned, its not a must have, but it is certainly nice to have. Wile learning another language, it is nice to have a quick reference guide readily available instead of thumbing through your textbook. If you are just learning Greek, you could certainly live without this chart, but its cheep and personally has helped me.

"Not a must have", It is a handy tool for reviewing, but you don't have to buy it. As he/she make progress through the first year of Greek class, one can make his own review or cheat sheets, more through than this one, focusing on the issues he/she need to learn better. Not to mention the reviewing and the systematizing work itself that can provide a great help in order to organize the Greek grammar knowledge in one's mind (using different colors and highlights, tips and tricks, and so on).

You can spend your money more wisely by buying Mounce's BBG vocabulary cards, which are really helpful (unless you decide to make your own cards...)



 
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