A Primer of Biblical Greek

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, Aug 5, 2011 - Religion - 288 pages
Though there are currently a number of texts for teaching biblical Greek, most of them are plagued by various deficiencies. Written with these flaws in mind, this new primer by N. Clayton Croy offers an effective, single-volume introduction to biblical Greek that has proven successful in classrooms around the country.This volume takes a primarily deductive approach to teaching biblical Greek and assumes that students have no prior knowledge of the language. Divided into 32 separate lessons, each containing a generous number of exercises, the text leads students from the Greek alphabet to a working understanding of the language of the Septuagint and the New Testament.Special features of A Primer of Biblical Greek:
  • An abundance of exercises
    Each lesson includes practice sentences taken from the Septuagint and the New Testament as well as Greek sentences composed by the author. Exercises in English-to-Greek translation are also included.
  • Concise but accurate grammatical explanations
    Great care has been taken to insure that grammatical explanations are clear, correct, and succinct. In particular, the Greek participle receives a fuller-than-usual treatment.
  • A natural order of presentation
    Material is presented according to the natural structure of Greek and the traditional terminology of grammarians. Declensions and principal parts, for example, are presented in numerical order.
  • Inclusive language
    The book uses inclusive language for human beings throughout.
  • Helpful appendixes for quick reference
    Included at the back of the book are the Greek paradigms, Greek-to-English vocabulary, English-to-Greek vocabulary, and a bibliography for further study.
 

Contents

Second Aorist Active Participles
13
Second Aorist Middle Participles 134 Syntax of the Aorist Participle
14
Genitive Absolute
15
e First Declension
16
Characteristics of Greek Nouns
17
Forms of the First Declension
18
e Denite Article
19
Accentuation of Nouns
20

e Present Active Indicative
e Present Active Innitive 13 Accentuation of Verbs
Vocabulary 23 e Second Declension
Forms of the Second Declension
Accentuation of Second Declension Nouns 26 Exercises
LESSON 5
Forms and Syntax of the Denite Article 29 Forms of First and Second Declension Adjectives
Syntax of Adjectives
Cases with Special Verbs
Exercises
LESSON 6
Masculine Nouns of the First Declension 36 Syntax of Prepositions
Special Constructions with Prepositions
Elision and Aspiration 39 Neuter Plural Subjects with Singular Verbs 40 Exercises
LESSON 7
Present Indicative of εἰμί 44 Accentuation of ἔστιν 45 Forms of Personal Pronouns
Syntax of Personal Pronouns
Special Uses of αὐτός
1
Exercises
3
LESSON
7
Forms of the Present Middle Indicative 56 Forms of the Present Passive Indicative
8
e Present MiddlePassive Innitive 58 Personal Agent with ὑπό 59 Impersonal Dative of Means 60 Deponent Verbs
9
Comments on Certain Verbs in is Lesson 62 Exercises LESSON
10
Exercises
14
e Imperfect Active Indicative 66 Forms of the Augment
15
e Imperfect Indicative of εἰμί
16
Exercises
17
LESSON 3
69
Adverbial καί 72 Correlative Constructions
70
Exercises
71
LESSON 12
74
Forms of the Future Active Indicative 77 Forms of the Future Middle Indicative 78 Formation of the Future Tense
76
Irregular Futures
77
Exercises
78
LESSON 13
82
Signicance of the Aorist Tense 85 Forms of the First Aorist Active Indicative
65
Forms of the First Aorist Middle Indicative 87 First Aorist Innitives 88 Formation of the First Aorist
66
Exercises
67
LESSON 14
90
e Second Aorist
91
Forms of the Second Aorist Active Indicative
92
Forms of the Second Aorist Middle Indicative 94 Second Aorist Innitives
93
Some Common Second Aorist Forms
95
Exercises
96
Vocabulary
97
Forms of the Perfect Active Indicative
98
Forms of the Perfect MiddlePassive Indicative 102 Perfect Innitives
102
Various Forms of Perfect Tense Reduplication 104 e Pluperfect in Biblical Greek
103
Some Common Perfect Tense Forms 106 Exercises
105
LESSON 16
107
Forms of the Aorist Passive Indicative 110 e Second Aorist Passive 111 Forms of the Future Passive Indicative
108
e Aorist Passive Innitive 113 Formation of the Aorist Passive
109
Exercises
110
LESSON 17
115
e ird Declension 117 Basic ird Declension Endings
116
Monosyllabic Nouns of the ird Declension 119 Neuter Nouns in μα
117
Exercises
120
LESSON 18
121
Forms of the Present MiddlePassive Participle
122
Syntax of the Participle
123
Tense and Time in the Participle 127 e Present Participle of εἰμί
125
Exercises
126
LESSON 19
129
Aorist Middle Participles
131
Perfect Active Participles
20
Perfect MiddlePassive Participles
20
Periphrastic Participles 142 Nuances of the Adverbial Participle
20
Exercises
20
LESSON
21
Contraction Chart
21
Accentuation of Contract Verbs 148 Principal Parts of Contract Verbs 149 Reexive Pronouns
21
e Decension of πᾶς 151 Uses of πᾶς
21
Exercises Contents
21
LESSON 4
22
First Aorist of Liquid Verbs
22
Forms of Common Liquid Verbs 158 Reciprocal Pronouns
22
Possessive Adjectives 160 Exercises
22
LESSON
23
Forms of the Subjunctive
23
Uses of the Subjunctive
23
Tense and Time in the Subjunctive 166 e Present Subjunctive of εἰμί
23
LESSON
24
Syntax of the Innitive 172 Indirect Discourse
24
Exercises
24
LESSON
25
Masculine Nouns in ευς εως 178 Neuter Nouns in ος ους
25
Exercises
25
LESSON 8
26
Forms of the First Aorist Imperative
26
Forms of the Second Aorist Imperative 186 Tense and Time in the Imperative
26
Prohibitions 188 Present Imperative of εἰμί 189 Exercises
26
LESSON
27
e Indenite Pronoun and Adjective 193 e Relative Pronoun 194 Conditional Relative Clauses
30
Exercises
197
LESSON
28
e Present System of δίδωμι
29
e Aorist Active System of δίδωμι
30
Irregular Adjectives 204 e Declension of πολύς 205 e Declension of μέγας
205
Exercises
206
LESSON 29
29
e Present System of τίθημι
30
e Aorist Active System of τίθημι
31
e Indenite Relative Pronoun 196 e Verb οἶδα
32
e Number One and Related Words 214 Exercises
213
LESSON 30
30
e Verb φημί 219 Second Aorist of βαίνω and γινώσκω
218
Numbers 221 e Article before μέν and δέ 222 Exercises
219
LESSON 31
223
Comparative Adjectives
224
Forms of Certain Comparative Adjectives
225
Exercises
226
LESSON 32
231
Proper Names
232
Some Special Uses of the Cases
233
Optative Mood
234
e Article in Various Constructions
235
Connectives and Style in Biblical Greek
236
Exercises
237
PARADIGMS e First Declension 238 First Declension Feminine Nouns 239 First Declension Masculine Nouns
239
e Second Declension 240 Second Declension MasculineFeminine Nouns
240
Second Declension Neuter Nouns
241
e ird Declension 242 ird Declension Nouns
242
Article Adjectives and Participles 243 e Denite Article
243
First and Second Declension Adjectives 245 Adjectives of the ird Declension 246 Irregular Adjectives
244
Irregular Comparative Adjectives 248 Present Active Participle
247
Present MiddlePassive Participle 250 Aorist Active Participles
249
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About the author (2011)

N. Clayton Croy is associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, Ohio.

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