Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek [Paperback]

Bruce Metzger (Author)

Book Description

The beginning Greek student faces a vexing dilemma: a myriad of vocabulary words to learn and little time to learn them. One of the century's leading Greek scholars offers a solid solution by organizing Greek words according to their frequency of appearance in the New Testament. This text helps students maximize their study by concentrating on the words that appear most often in the Greek New Testament. (67)

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Text: English, Greek

About the Author

Bruce M. Metzger is the George L. Collord Professor of New Testament Language and Literature Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. A past president of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, he has made valuable contributions to the areas of textual criticism, philology, paleography, and translation.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Baker Academic; 3 edition (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801021804
• ISBN-13: 978-0801021800
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #57,453 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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As one of the world's best-known scholars on the text of the New Testament, Bruce M. Metzger has taught for many years at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent - but it has inspired even better works, May 28, 2000

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Jonathan W. Robie (Durham, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Paperback)

This is an excellent book for learning Greek vocabulary and word formation, and has been used in seminaries for over 50 years. During that time, people have been thinking of ways they would add to it or improve it. Although Metzger's book still holds up quite well, I think that some of these newer books have surpassed it. For instance, I like Robinson's Mastering Greek Vocabulary better, and it contains much of the same material.

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic -- must have, November 8, 2000

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John D. Lewis - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Paperback)

If you're a serious (or even semi-serious) student of NT Greek, you'll want this book. A short list of vocabulary words, sorted and indexed several ways, gives you the information you need to start learning the most commonly used words immediately.

Not designed to be read cover-to-cover, it's just a list of Greek words, their meanings and, often, related English words that derived from the Greek term. Using a computer program, the straight words could be generated easily enough, but the beauty is in the English definitions and related words. Designed to help make the connection between the English and the Greek clearer for the user, Metzger has provided students with an excellent, concise, and easy to use reference work that you'll return to over and over.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Must have Aid, February 15, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek (Paperback)

This reference is an important resource for the first time Greek student. Organized in a fashion of word use frequency allows the student to locate the most commonly used words quickly. The appendices are extremely useful for understanding concepts such as the geometrical graph of prepositions.