Tuesday, June 25, 2013

GREEK TOOLS FOR BEGINNERS


GREEK BIBLES
I. New Testament
Eberhard Nestle and Erwin Nestle, Novum Testamentum Graece, 28th Revised Edition. Edited by Barbara and Kurt Aland, Johannes Karavidopoulos, Carlo M. Martini, and Bruce M. Metzger. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2012. (http://www.nestle-aland.com/en/home/) (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1619700301)
Barbara and Kurt Aland (eds.), et. al. The Greek New Testament, 4th Revised Edition. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2008.
J. D. Douglas (ed.), The Greek-English Interlinear New Testament, Personal Size. Carol Stream, Il: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1990. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Greek-English-Interlinear-Personal-Size/dp/0842345647)
Richard J. Goodrich and Albert L. Lukaszewski (eds.), A Reader’s Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007.
II. Septuagint (Old Testament)
Alfred Rahlfs and Robert Hanhart (Eds.) Septuaginta. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2006. (http://www.amazon.com/Septuaginta-Greek-Alfred-Rahlfs/dp/1598561804/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372185765&sr=1-1&keywords=septuaginta) 
III. All Greek Bible (Septuagint + NA28)
            Biblia Graeca. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft. To be released 11/15/2013.
IV. Gospel Parallels (the Four Canonical Gospels in Parallel Panels)
Kurt and Barbara Aland (eds.), Synopsis Quattuor Evangeliorum: Locis Parallelis Evangeliorum Apocryphorum Et Patrum Adhibitis Edidit. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1996. (http://www.amazon.com/Synopsis-Quattuor-Evangeliorum-Parallelis-Apocryphorum/dp/3438051303)

GREEK GRAMMAR BOOKS
I. Beginner’s Grammars for Biblical Greek
J. Gresham Machen and Dan G. McCartney, New Testament Greek for Beginners, 2nd Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2004. (http://www.amazon.com/New-Testament-Greek-Beginners-2nd/dp/013184234X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372180118&sr=1-1&keywords=new+testament+greek+for+beginners) 
II. Intermediate Grammars for Biblical Greek
N. Clayton Croy, A Primer of Biblical Greek. Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1999. (http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Biblical-Greek-Clayton-Croy/dp/0802867332)
David Alan Black, Learn to Read New Testament Greek, 3rd Edition. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2009. (http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Read-New-Testament-Greek/dp/0805444939/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372187678&sr=1-2-fkmr1&keywords=matthew+black+grammar#_)
Stanley E. Porter; Jeffrey T. Reed; and Matthew Brook O’Donnell, Fundamentals of New Testament Greek. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2010. (http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-New-Testament-Greek-English/dp/0802828272/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372179656&sr=1-1&keywords=fundamentals+of+new+testament+greek)
William D. Mounce, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996.
III. Advanced Grammars for Biblical Greek
F. Blass; A Debrunner; and Robert W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1961. (http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Grammar-Testament-Christian-Literature/dp/0226271102/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372179318&sr=1-1&keywords=a+greek+grammar+of+the+new+testament+and+other+early+christian+literature)
Maximilian Zerwick and Joseph Smith, S.J., Biblical Greek: Illustrated with Examples. Rome: Scripta Pontificii Instituti Biblici, 1963.
IV. Grammars for Classical Greek
Herbert W. Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges. New York: American Book Company, 1920. (http://www.amazon.com/Greek-Grammar-Herbert-Weir-Smyth/dp/0674362500/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372181258&sr=1-1&keywords=smyth+greek+grammar+for+colleges#_) Available on-line for free, see below.
Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT), Reading Greek: Grammar and Exercises. Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 2007.
V. Modern Greek
Seriously, just get Rosetta StoneTM if you are interested in learning Modern Greek: http://www.rosettastone.com/learn-greek

GREEK LEXICONS
I. Biblical Greek
W. Bauer; W.F. Arndt; F.W. Gingrich; and F.W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, 3rd Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Frederick William Danker (with Kathryn Krug), The Concise Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2009. (http://www.amazon.com/The-Concise-Greek-English-Lexicon-Testament/dp/0226136159/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372187484&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=dankr+the+concise)
F. Wilbur Gingrich (revised by Frederick Danker), Shorter Lexicon of the Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Johannes P. Louw and Eugene A. Nida, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament based on Semantic Domains, 2nd Edition. 2 Vols. New York: United Bible Societies, 1988, 1989. (http://www.amazon.com/Greek-English-Lexicon-Testament--Semantic-Domains/dp/0826703445/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372182115&sr=1-5&keywords=louw+and+nida)
William D. Mounce, The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993. (http://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Lexicon-Greek-New-Testament/dp/0310542103/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372187340&sr=1-1&keywords=mounce+analytic)
II. Septuagint
Bernard A. Taylor, The Analytical Lexicon to the Septuagint: A Complete Parsing Guide. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1994. (http://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Lexicon-Septuagint-Bernard-Taylor/dp/1565635167)
III. Classical Greek
Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, and Roderick McKenzie. A Greek-English Lexicon. Rev. and augm. ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996. (http://www.amazon.com/Greek-English-Lexicon-Ninth-Revised-Supplement/dp/0198642261/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372408711&sr=1-1#_) available on-line for free through Perseus and other sites, see below.
           
GREEK CONCORDANCES
Edwin Hatch and Henry A. Redpath, A Concordance to the Septuagint: And the Other Greek Versions of the Old Testament (Including the Apocryphal Books), 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1998.
William Fiddian Moulton and Alfred Shenington Geden, A Concordance to the Greek New Testament, 6th Fully Revised Edition. Edited by L. Howard Marshall. London: T&T Clarke, 2004. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0567083470)

GREEK STUDY AIDS & GREEK EXEGETICAL TOOLS   
I. Books
Bruce M. Metzger, Lexical Aids for Students of New Testament Greek. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Books, 1998. (http://www.amazon.com/Lexical-Aids-Students-Testament-Greek/dp/0801021804) 
C.F.D. Moule, An Idiom Book of the New Testament, 2nd Edition. Cambridge: The Cambridge University Press, 2004. (http://www.amazon.com/Idiom-Book-New-Testament-Greek/dp/052109237X) 
Maximilian Zerwick and Mary Grosvenor, A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament, Unabridged, 3rd Edition. Rome: Editrice Pontificio Istituto Biblico, 1988.
Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament, 2nd Edition. Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft/ United Bible Societies, 2007. (http://www.amazon.com/Textual-Commentary-Greek-Testament-Ancient/dp/1598561642/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372184007&sr=1-1&keywords=a+textual+commentary+on+the+greek+new+testament)
Gary A. Long, Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Concepts through English Grammar. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 2006. (http://www.amazon.com/Grammatical-Concepts-101-Biblical-Greek/dp/0801046939/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372183534&sr=1-1&keywords=gary+a.+long+greek)
Murray J. Harris, Prepositions and Theology in the Greek New Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012. (http://www.amazon.com/Prepositions-Theology-Greek-New-Testament/dp/0310493927/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372183657&sr=1-7&keywords=murray+j.+harris)
II. Electronic Sources
Smyth’s classic Greek Grammar is available in PDF form @: http://www.textkit.com/learn/ID/142/author_id/63/
Blue Letter Bible: http://www.blueletterbible.org/
Bible Hub by Biblos: http://biblehub.com/
BibleWorks exegetical software: http://www.bibleworks.com/
Logos Bible Software: http://www.logos.com/

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®), digital library of Greek literature: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/   
Perseus Project Greek Texts & Tools:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:corpus:perseus,Greek+Texts&redirect=true

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