There's a lot of homework assigned in the workbook for each chapter in the textbook! But it's all worth it. The first part for almost every exercise in the workbook is parsing: declining nouns; parsing verbs. The second is translating selected Greek passages of the Bible into English. After every five chapters or so, there is a review exercise in the workbook testing the material in the chapters just learned.

There is no need to buy an answer key because all the answers to the parsing drills are found in the grammar itself--either in the glossary in the back or in the text of the substantive chapters. For the answers to the translations, any interlinear Greek-English Bible will do or even just an English Bible.

One of the best things about the translation exercises is that they gradually teach you how to do exegesis as you progress through the text. (The second year course--William Mounce's "Graded Reader of Biblical Greek" and Daniel Wallace's "Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics"--concentrates on exegesis almost exclusively). The copious footnotes give all kinds of interesting theological and etymological tidbits that make translation really fun. This is additional to the sheer joy of being able to translate the Word of God yourself and seeing it in "color" through the Greek text instead of in "black and white" in an English translation.

Both the grammar and workbook are very user-friendly. It is almost as if Prof. Mounce is sitting next to you encouraging and, if necessary, cracking the whip over you. The workbook is a necessary complement to the grammar. I almost did not buy the workbook but am very glad that I did. William Mounce makes learning Greek possible without even having to set foot in a seminary class.


A great workbook for a great textbook   May 18, 2000
 49 out of 49 found this review helpful

William Mounce's "Basics of Biblical Greek" grammar is probably the best Greek textbook available. The value of the textbook, outstanding as it is by itself, is enhanced by the quality of the workbook. Almost every chapter in the textbook has corresponding exercises in the workbook.

There's a lot of homework assigned in the workbook for each chapter in the textbook! But it's all worth it. The first part for almost every exercise in the workbook is parsing: declining nouns; parsing verbs. The second is translating selected Greek passages of the Bible into English. After every five chapters or so, there is a review exercise in the workbook testing the material in the chapters just learned.

There is no need to buy an answer key because all the answers to the parsing drills are found in the grammar itself--either in the glossary in the back or in the text of the substantive chapters. For the answers to the translations, any interlinear Greek-English Bible will do or even just an English Bible.

One of the best things about the translation exercises is that they gradually teach you how to do exegesis as you progress through the text. (The second year course--William Mounce's "A Graded Reader of Biblical Greek" and Daniel Wallace's "Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics"--concentrates on exegesis almost exclusively). The copious footnotes give all kinds of interesting theological and etymological tidbits that make translation really fun. This is additional to the sheer joy of being able to translate the Word of God yourself and seeing it in "color" through the Greek text instead of in "black and white" in an English translation.

Both the grammar and workbook are very user-friendly. It is almost as if Prof. Mounce is sitting next to you encouraging and, if necessary, cracking the whip over you. The workbook is a necessary complement to the grammar. I almost did not buy the workbook but am very glad that I did. William Mounce makes learning Greek possible without even having to set foot in a seminary class.


Basics of Biblical Greek Workbook   April 4, 2000
 7 out of 8 found this review helpful

This workbook gives an added advange to those who use it with the text. It covers every aspect of the principles of Biblical Greek. It gives the student drilling exercises to read review and repeat all the steps to the basics of Greek. It helped me to form a firm foundation in my Greek studies and it will do the same for all who apply its easy to use format.