A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Unabridged (Imitation Leather)

~ Max Zerwick (Author), Mary Grosvenor (Author)

Product Details

• Imitation Leather: 839 pages
• Publisher: Loyola University Press; 5 Revised edition (June 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8876535888
• ISBN-13: 978-8876535888
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.4 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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50 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ESSENTIAL reference (side-by-side with GNT), January 2, 2001

By	Chris Lee (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

I took first-year and Intermediate Greek; we used the Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek to get our vocabulary down to 10x word occurrences in the Greek New Testament. Yet doing this, you only cover roughly 99% of all words in the Greek New Testament. There are many, many words in the Greek New Testament that occur quite often, and it's good to have this book to look up what they mean. Alan Wong (one of the reviewers) also told me about this book, and it is fabulous!

Especially when reading Paul where there are many hapaxlegemons, it is essential to have a good dictionary around, and "Max and Mary" (as this is nicknamed) is very good to have around, especially that it is layed out verse-by-verse, parsed. I use this book quite regularly when I'm in the Gospel of Luke or in the Acts of the Apostles, or in the Epistles. (The book of Hebrews is another matter altogether!)

In addition, the book also covers a number of textual variants, grammatical constructs, and idioms, all very helpful. It is bound in vinyl (I think to be lightweight), so unfortunately, if you use this heavily, it may fall apart over the years.

It's worth it for the student and pastor who has learned a good amount of Greek grammar, and wants to do some Greek translation and exegesis, and is a great tool to have when beginning exegesis. In addition, I'd also recommend Daniel Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics (which was our Intermediate Greek textbook), which explains a lot of the more advanced Greek constructs and grammar.

However, as a good working translation is important in exegesis, this book is invaluable.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful! Could become a crutch for verbs., January 9, 2002

By	S. Blackwelder "fountain pen daily user" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

After I finished first-year NT Greek, I used this precious gem of a tool to read Colossians with significant understanding in about four hours! This is better than ANY of the computerized Greek NT study helps.

Use this tool with Zerwick's excellent little grammar book, to which it's keyed. In the few places where I've found that my biases differ from Zerwick's, his have always been easy enough to isolate and think about.

Use this tool for quick reading; don't use it for exegesis papers, and don't let it become a crutch for verb forms.

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An essential tool for reading the Greek NT, November 18, 1999

By	koenigsfreund (New Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews

My Greek professor at seminary heartily recommended this (aka affectionately as Max & Mary). For rapid reading of the NT and doing quick translations, this is the first tool I turn to (ahead of my lexicons). Besides parsing words that occur less than 60x and translating idioms, it occaisionally some functional translations (e.g. whether a genitive is subjective or objective or plenary), which can be a very helpful starting point in exegesis of the NT.