Learn to Read New Testament Greek [Hardcover]

David Alan Black (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1994

This user-friendly introduction to New Testament Greek keeps discussion of grammar as non-technical as possible. Black provides tools and exercises for bringing the student to the experience of reading from the Greek New Testament after just 17 lessons. Valuable for Bible students and pastors.

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Language Notes

Text: English, Greek

About the Author

David Alan Black is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. An avid horseman, he and his wife live on a 123-acre working farm in southern Virginia and are self-supporting missionaries to Mecklenburg County, Virginia, and Ethiopia.

--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 236 pages
• Publisher: B&H Publishing Group; Expanded edition (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805416129
• ISBN-13: 978-0805416121
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #860,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #48 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Instruction > Ancient Greek

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62 of 62 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Introduction to New Testament Greek, September 6, 2002

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E. H. McGowin (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learn to Read New Testament Greek (Hardcover)

As a first year Greek student, I found Mounce's large tome on Introductory Greek, with its verbosity and endless depth, to be extremely intimidating. In my opinion, Black avoids such stumbling blocks for the new Greek student, while offering many outlets and resources for the more advanced student as well. Although there were several places in which my own brilliant Greek professor (Dr. Roy Metts) had to adjust and/or replace Black's instruction (e.g., Black's classification system for Third Declension Nouns is somewhat cumbersome), my opinion of this text remains positive and I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning the basics of biblical Greek.
(P.S. Broadman and Holman's printing company did a terrible job in the binding of this book. Almost everyone I know who owns this book has had the pages separate from the binding within a few months. Be prepared to glue it back together!)

39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand, August 9, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Learn to Read New Testament Greek (Hardcover)

For anyone who is tring to learn Greek but is not already a linguistics expert this book is written for you. It divides the language into easy to swallow lessons that gradualy brings you through an introductory course. rather than learning everything about one area of the language before moving on it teaches you enough to get to the next lesson and pretty soon you can write simple sentances. from there he goes back and equips you with more vocab and a better understandign of grammer so that your sentances can get more and more complex.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Model of Clarity, March 17, 2005

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David A. Booth - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn to Read New Testament Greek (Hardcover)

David Alan Black has provided us with an introductory grammar that is a model of clarity.

This NT Greek grammar is reasonably concise and yet always provides sufficient information for the student to grasp the matter at hand. Compared to "The Basics of Biblical Greek", this grammar does a better job of introducing the student to the syntax (on an elementary level)of the New Testament with clearer explanations of grammatical terminology.

This is an excellent text for a professor to adopt, but it is also highly recommended as a supplement to those who are using Mounce's work. If the student is having difficulty grasping the grammatical point that Mounce is discussing, it is very likely that turning to Black's grammar will clear up the matter. Additionally, Black has an excellent selection of exercises with a complete answer key to the first seventeen chapters as an appendix to the book.

Additional illustrations are judiciously placed throughout the grammar. For example, on the crucial issue of mastering Participles, Black offers 34 sentences with translation in the body of the text.

This is a "must have" resource for first year Koine Greek students - and is well worth a second look by instructors who have chosen other texts.