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| Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar | 
 enlarge | Author: William D. Mounce
Publisher: Zondervan
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  72 reviews
Sales Rank: 7216
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
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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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 Most spectacular grammar text ever. December 21, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
As a student, I have to say that this grammar is categorically the best textbook I have ever encountered on any subject, bar none. The presentation of the material is clear and the explanations lucid. The order of the material is carefully considered. The whole didactic approach, of setting out general rules and illustrating them with examples, is one that works very well. The footnotes are very helpful, including in many cases finer points of background information (e.g., from morphology) that allow the student to understand why things are the way they are, which makes them much easier to remember. The lexicon in the back is good. (It's not a substitute for the big Danker lexicon, but nothing crammed into the back of a textbook could be.) The index is very good. Even the appendices are genuinely useful.
Learning a language necessarily entails a significant amount of study, so I hesitate to call learning Greek "easy", but this book certainly makes it much easier than it would otherwise be and a pleasure. You will not regret the money you spend on this book. Even if you use another grammar in class, get this one too.
The workbook also is unusually good.
I said that I used this book as a student. More recently, I have now used it to help other students through learning Greek. They tell me I'm a great Greek teacher, but it's the textbook that's great. With this text, the course practically teaches itself.
 Very well organized October 25, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Though I like Machen's work a great deal, I have to come down on the side of Mounce for his organization of material. I think it is organized in a much easier format for first-time students and was a great help to me as a self-teaching tool. I would also recommend Bruce Metzger's Lexical Aids booklet as a companion to Mounce. With Metzger's vocabulary builder along with Mounce's gramatical study, you will be reading a great deal of the New Testament greek texts in a very short time. As with any such works, however, do not make the mistake of thinking there is a painless way to learn greek. However, these tools will help smooth the path.
gives Machen a run for his money August 8, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is different, not better or worse, than Machen's classic "New Testament Greek for Beginners." Whereas Machen is simple, systematic, and small, Mounce is wordy, complicated, and bulky (you need a separate work book for the exercises.) To learn Greek, you need both Machen AND Mounce.
Mounce gives lots of basic, helpful tips (e.g., datives always have iota, only second person singular verbs end with sigmas, the third declension dative plural ending is the inverse of the corresponding second declension ending, almost all third declension nouns end in alpha, etc, etc.) He gives much fuller explanations than any other grammar I have seen. His font is clear and large and his paradigms at the end of the book are worth the price of the book. His comments throughout help you get motivated to learn NT Greek.
I question his wisdom in waiting so long to introduce verbs and I'm not convinced it is worth memorizing the endings separate from the paradigms, but then again, I have not written my own Greek text book as Mounce has! He had the courage to write a new-style grammar aimed at evangelicals but which really does give Machen a run for his money. Mounce is not perfect, but his is the best grammar of its kind. Even if you think you already know Greek very well, I would recommend this book, and if you are learning it yourself nothing compares to this in fullness of treatment.
I'm not a big fan of his exercises in the work book, but you can't have everything. I would recommend supplementing Mounce with Machen who does a better job drilling the vocab and paradigms, but Mounce does have you read a lots of real Greek.
Mounce's analysis of principal parts is by far the best treatment I have every seen.
I give this four instead of five stars only because no grammar is perfect. None is better than this. It is well worth the extra money and the c.d. rom is also cool.
Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar August 1, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the most helpful textbooks I've ever used. Multiple tools for learning really enhance the experience.
Decent introduction July 31, 2006
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Mounce gives a very streamlined introduction to Greek, tailored specifically for the New Testament. It will get you up and reading the Greek New Testament as fast as one possibly could. This book appears to be a standard for american seminaries. My only concern is that, with this book being a standard, we will churn out pastors who read and translate Greek in the same way - the Mounce way. My intuition is that much in exegesis is a judgment call, and so my worry is that we are all getting the "Mounce translation" of the Greek New Testament.
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