Product Description

The best-selling and most widely accepted New Testament Greek textbook has just gotten better. The author has made the book more user-friendly and offers options to professors, particularly enabling them to introduce Greek verbs earlier as well as offering some made-up sentences to challenge the students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #166334 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 480 pages

From the Back Cover
Basics of Biblical Greek is by far the best-selling and most widely accepted textbook for learning New Testament Greek. It has become a household name in many Bible schools, colleges, and seminaries. This fine tool for learning New Testament Greek has just gotten better. The author has made some adjustments to his material as a result of feedback from professors. For example, a chapter has been added at the end of the book on clauses. The CD-ROM is now easier to use and has even more information on it than the earlier editions.

About the Author
William D. Mounce (Ph.D., University of Aberdeen) is the preaching pastor at Cornerstone Fellowship in Spokane, Washington. He was professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Language program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and prior to that professor of New Testament and Greek at Azusa Pacific University. He has written a large number of Greek language textbooks and tools.

Customer Reviews

Bewildering
I had studied NT Greek some 20 years ago, so was not a complete novice. I wanted a book I could work through at home, since I do not have access to a tutor.
I found this book utterly impenetrable. Maybe it is fine if you have a tutor to guide you through it, but for home study I think it is useless. I fail to see why other reviewers find it so marvellous.
The new Duff / Wenham Cambridge book is a model of clarity, and far more digestible.

An excellent textbook, but maybe not to everyone's tastes
I bought Mounce's book as a complete beginner with the aim of learning the basics of Greek on my own. I found it was exactly the sort of book I needed and I was able to get through the book very quickly. It sets things out very clearly and focuses on the patterns within Greek rather than rote memorization, which is a big help. One of the best features is the interactive CD which provides some really useful resouces.

I think the reason some people don't get on with this book is that it is still structured in quite a formal way and uses some academic language. This means the book is very rigorous, but if you're the sort of person who likes to learn little bits from different areas of the language at any one time then the approach may be frustrating. If you identify with that, I would recommend Dobson's "Learn New Testament Greek", an excellent book that takes a very different approach.

I suppose it comes down to knowing how you prefer to learn. My opinion is that if you like to have everything presented to you at once in a rigorous way, this book is the best available, but if not perhaps you'd be best looking elsewhere.

Hopeless and expensive
I m sorry to add a negative comment on that book
having studied Greek among other classical languages, I must say that this book is perfectly useless, expensive for what it does not deliver and is a complete waste of money .

If you want to discover the New Testament Greek (aka Koine) and ENJOY your first steps in that amazingly rich language, treat yourself with the FABULOUS book by John Dobson "Learn New Testament Greek"
Your wallet will enjoy the difference in price and your brain will love it as well.