From: Hultberg, Alan (alan_hultberg@peter.biola.edu)
Date: Sat Dec 05 1998 - 09:41:41 EST
Greg,
To gain facility in reading Greek you will need to be able to "parse" on
sight. I personally don't think that memorizing all the paradgigms is the
best way to achieve this, however. Instead, learn only what is necessary to
distinguish one tense/voice/mood/case/person/number from another, that is,
memorize the smallest meaningful formal units (morphemes) that are
characteristic of each grammatical category. You'll find there aren't many,
and they can be arranged in compact form quite systematically. Mounce's
Basics of Biblical Greek is helpful in this regard, as is studying (as
necessary) his morphology of biblical Greek. (It is doubly helpful to learn a
few phonological "rules" that are encountered often in Greek morphology--esp.,
for instance, why 3rd declension nouns do such weird things--Mounce's
Morphology is very useful here.)
What you especially want to memorize outright (if you want to be able to read
your GNT with confidence) is vocabulary and principle parts of common
"irregular" verbs.
Re: Mounce's Analytical Lexicon. If you're learning to parse, take the time
to wrestle with a word before looking it up, but by all means look it up to
check yourself. When you do look a parsing up, however, don't leave it until
you can see *why* it was identified as it was.
For what it's worth, that's my take.
Alan
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>From: Greg Kilbrai on Fri, Dec 4, 1998 7:54 PM
>Subject: Lexicons and calling for advice for new students
>To: Biblical Greek
>
>>Hello Fellow Greeks,
>>I am continuing a study of Greek that was started this semester and I
>want to know what you folks think is the absolute best Lexicon money can
>buy.
>>
>>I would really appreciate your input.
>>Joey Ingles
>
>Hi Joey. I will answer from a student's perspective, because I'm only on
>my third semester of Greek so far. (Hopefully the faculty on the list
>won't cringe when they read this - but if they do, they are a friendly
>bunch and will point me in a better direction. ;-) )
>
>As a little b-greeker, I have the Walter Bauer by Arndt and Gingrich
>[BAG] that others have recommended to you as the best. But at this point
>my knowledge of greek grammar and vocabulary is so limited that I find
>BAG very cumbersome to use. Although rich in detail for word studies,
>each entry is only in the standard dictionary form, which is difficult
>if you are reading a verb that is not in the 1st person singular,
>present indicative!
>
>Because I still have trouble with parsing and identifying verb
>tenses/moods and the case of nouns by sight, I find I most often rely on
>another lexicon:
>
> The analytical lexicon to the greek new testament
> William D. Mounce.
> Zondervan, 1993.
>
>This has every NT word listed regardless of gender, number or case or
>verb tense/mood/number, along with a general English translation and
>some scripture referrences. I use it constantly for preparing my
>assignments, because I'm still working on the basic foundations in
>greek.
>
>I pray for the day when I will outgrow this stage, but at this point the
>Mounce lexicon is a much more helpful tool for me in my study of Greek
>than the BAG - I guess the definition of "best" will change depending on
>your level/proficiency in Greek and what you need it for.
>
>Now then, perhaps the faculty members could add a few words of advice:
>am I taking a reasonable approach to my studies? If I keep at my studies
>how much longer will it be before I can get off this plateau I seem
>stuck on? Do you think the kind of lexicon I'm using is a genuine tool,
>or am I relying on it too much as a crutch? Would more paradigm
>"memorizing" help me? Should I be making more effort to parse by sight,
>or will this come with time? Any tips would be welcome!
>
>Greg Kilbrai
>
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