New Testament Greek
An Introduction

Provides a general introduction to the grammar and syntax of Hellenistic, or New Testament, Greek, suitable for two-semester courses.

B. H. McLean (Author)

9781107003521, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 October 2011

276 pages, 30 b/w illus. 1 map 30 exercises
26 x 18.2 x 2 cm, 0.65 kg

This book provides a general introduction to the grammar and syntax of Hellenistic, or New Testament, Greek. With twenty-four chapters, it is suitable for two-semester courses. Each lesson is structured around equipping students to read passages drawn directly from the Greek New Testament. In addition to the traditional Erasmian system, students are offered the option of using a historical Greek system of pronunciation similar to that used in early Christian preaching and prayer. The book includes extensive reference tools, including paradigms for memorization, grammatical appendices and illustrations. The text is accompanied by a website that offers a workbook of passages for translation. Each chapter of the grammar concludes with a vocabulary list of Greek terms that appear in that lesson's assigned passage for translation, found in the online workbook. Audio recordings of all vocabulary words and translation passages, using the historical Greek system of pronunciation, are provided online.

Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Alphabet and pronunciation
2. Writing Greek letters, accents, diacritical marks, and punctuation
3. Present and future active indicative, present active indicative of the verb 'to be,' and particles
4. Contract verbs, present and future active indicative tense, and future of liquid verbs
5. Second declension, the definite article, and prepositions
6. First declension, and the definite article
7. Adjectives, demonstrative pronouns, and comparison
8. Personal pronouns, relative pronouns, and reflexive pronouns
9. First aorist active indicative
10. Verbal roots, principal parts, and second aorist active indicative
11. Present middle and passive indicative, future middle indicative, and future of the verb 'to be'
12. Imperfect middle and passive indicative, and first and second aorist middle
14. Third declension nouns and adjectives: part 1
15. Third declension nouns and adjectives: part 2
16. Perfect and pluperfect active, middle, and passive indicative
17. Aorist passive and future passive indicative
18. Present and aorist participles
19. Aorist passive participle, perfect participle, adverbial participles, genitive absolute, and periphrastic constructions
20. Non-thematic conjugation (-mi verbs): part 1. The indicative mood
21. Non-thematic conjugation (-mi verbs): part 2: Deivknumi, fhmiv and participles
22. Subjunctive mood and conditional sentences
23. The infinitive
24. Imperative mode
25. Appendix 1: table of principal parts
26. Appendix 2: summary of paradigms
27. Summary of vocabulary to be memorized
28. Subject index
29. Index of Greek words
30. Lexicon of Greek words in texts for translation.

Subject Areas: Religion: general [HRA], Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]