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Title: Essentials of New Testament Greek by Ray Summers, Thomas Sawyer ISBN: 0805410015 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: June, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71
Rating: 3
Summary: Greek from a Latin Point of View
Comment: There are two social traditions in presenting Greek, the Biblical and the classical. Summers presents the Biblical, a somehwat simplified view, adequate perhaps if you are not really going to read the Bible in Greek. Stepping in where classicists fear to tread, he applies Latin terminology to the Greek language. We learn that Greek has an ablative and an instrumental. He means, of course, that those cases have merged with the genitive and dative in Greek. Caveat imperitus.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good explanation, poor exercises.
Comment: This is a good introduction to studying Koine Greek, though it should probably be supplemented. The workbook is nearly essential (contrary to other reviews, it's quite easy to find), especially since it's true, there are no answers to the included exercises in the textbook itself.
But the explanations are clear and easy to follow. The text is well-written and concise. The font is quite readable and clear, and you shouldn't have any problems reading the Greek text itself.
If you get this book, do yourself a favor and get the workbook too. Together they make a nice pair.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not a self-study book
Comment: I bought this book in conjunction with a video course on NT Greek. I was troubled to find that the book does not come with answers to the exercises, making it difficult to use effectively in a self-study course.
I previously bought Wenham's Elements of NT Greek, but was put off by its (not surprisingly, considering it is published by Cambridge) overly academic style. I was looking for a simple NT Greek course and Summer's book seemed like it might fit the bill, especially when used with the video course.
One fundamental flaw/problem: on the back of the dust jacket, the blurb at the bottom mentions a workbook (Essentials of New Testament Greek Student's Guide). I have not found any references to this book anywhere else, including the publisher (who never returned my emails) or the publisher's web site. Searching across multiple web search engines returned no applicable hits, either.
The chapters are short. Maybe too short. The discussion is very brief on all the topics covered. Compared with Mounce's Basics book, this one seems emaciated (weighing in at under 200 pages, including index and verb charts). Many of the chapters lack substantive (some lack any!) examples, reducing both the benefit and length of the text.
I recently bought Mounce, hoping that it's more geared for the self-taught student. Summer's book is definitely not. Maybe the vapor-ware (?) Student's Guide would help. Has anybody ever seen the Student's Guide??
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Title: Essentials of New Testament Greek: A Student's Guide by Steven L. Cox ISBN: 0805420290 Publisher: Broadman & Holman Publishers Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Greek New Testament (With Dictionary) by Kurt Aland, B. Aland, Bruce M. Metzger, J. Karavidopoulos ISBN: 3438051133 Publisher: Fortress Press Pub. Date: October, 2000 List Price(USD): $45.99 |
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Title: The New Analytical Greek Lexicon by Wesley Perschbacher ISBN: 0943575338 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Complete Vocabulary Guide to the Greek New Testament by Warren C. Trenchard ISBN: 0310226953 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek by Matthew S. Demoss ISBN: 0830814647 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $8.00 |
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