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| Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar | 
 enlarge | Author: William D. Mounce
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
List Price: $41.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 7247
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.8
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6 x 1.2
ISBN: 0310250870
Dewey Decimal Number: 487.4
UPC: 025986250874
EAN: 9780310250876
Publication Date: August 1, 2003
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 great helps August 31, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book comes w/cdrom that has great helps and resources. The accompanying workbook is also very helpful in learning Greek.
I am actually LEARNING the language using this book! August 24, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Well, I am not nearly as smart as the other people posting reviews here. I am just an average guy. I am a driver for DHL, married with two kids - this means I don't have a lot of time to learn a language... with that said, with this book (combined with the workbook) I am actually LEARNING the language. So much so that I bought myself a greek new testament and am able to read more and more of it as I continue in my studies.
Take it for what its worth - this book is helping me, and I think it is doing it well. I am not feeling confused or lost. Mr. Mounce seems to be a good teacher, and a good writer. I recommend this book.
Take care,
Rob
 It's a great way to learn NT Greek July 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great way to learn Greek. It comes with a CD which contains all the Professors lectures and more, but there must be a better way to learn "English Grammar," for it is no easier for me today than it was 40 years ago. I had problems with it then and, though I speak as well as any today, I still do not grasp the concept.
If Bill taught the "meaning of ALL the words" along with the pronunciation, and compared them with their English equivalents, I could have learned it much easier. Still and yet, I am excited over what little I have learned to date. It only took me about 3 weeks to master my Greek "abg's."
Even a hard head like myself can learn with enough repetition, and I have already worn out one of the disks, (Thank goodness I has the foresight to make a duplicate) but I am learning.
I don't know just how long it takes most people to get through this course, but I expect to have made it completely through in about a year. Though I currently plan to continue studying Greek till I master the lingo, if what Bill says is correct, I will be able to read through the entire NT in it's original language by then. Then it is on to the LXX and the OT.
I am already over a half century old. I wonder if I will live that long... If so, hopefully our Lord will bless me with being able to share what I will have learned with someone willing to listen and learn.
Extremely helpful book! June 26, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am still using this book. It comes with a CD-ROM that contains many helpful exercises making it easier to learn the language. I reviewed other books and found this one worked best for me.
 Overall, I can't recommend June 3, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
The book definately has some strengths. The presentations on nouns and verbs are usually quite good, with useful diagrams and tables to help the student. But he relies, I think, far too much on grammatical rules, without really giving the student a feel for the language. I believe that a good grammar needs a good mix of inductive instruction alongside the purely grammatical. This is not it. I could understand why he switched the order of first and second aorists, but I found that confusing as a beginning Greek student: and he misses whole classes of second aorists (a common problem with Greek grammars in general that I have only found rectified in Dobson's Learn NT Greek and Phar's book on Homeric Greek). Mounce, like Daniel Wallace, seems to approach Greek as an exact science, as though they have it all figured out, and as though if one just masters the rules then one masters the language. I find this approach extremely flawed. And so, for example, Mounce spends the first 16 chapters or so on nouns, with all the rules of contraction, before even introducing verbs. I firmly believe that rules must be supplemented with lots of readings and practice, and that verbs and nouns should be introduced together, so that the beginning student can begin to translate and construct simple sentences from the early stages. I would recommend Groton's Alpha to Omega text instead, as this is an excellent intro to Classical Greek. I simply haven't come across anything comparable with NT Greek; I doubt one can really understand NT Greek without understanding the Greek literature of the day, anyway, as FF Bruce remarked. That would be like a foreign student learning just enough English to read Shakespeare: could they really understand Shakespeare without understanding a wider range of the English language?
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