It's Still Greek to Me: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to Intermediate Greek

by David Alan Black

Overview

Proof that learning grammar doesn't have to be boring. This easy-to-understand and humorous guide is for students in their second year of Greek study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801021817
Publisher:	Baker Publishing Group
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.41(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

David Alan Black (D.Theol., University of Basel) is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and New Testament editor of the International Standard Version of the Bible. He has authored or edited twelve books.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Up the Greek without a Paddle: This Thing Called Grammar
1. There's No Place Like Rome: The Parts of Speech and Their Function
2. Group Therapy: The Sentence and Its Parts
Part 2: The Greeks Had a Word for It: The Greek Noun System
3. Just in Case: Overcoming Declension Apprehension
4. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Adjectives Large and Small
5. Woe Is I: Overcoming Pronoun Paranoia
6. Have Mercy on Me, the Sinner: Those Articulate Articles
7. Up, Up, and Away: Those Preposterous Prepositions
Part 3: Rho, Rho, Rho Your Boat: The Greek Verb System
8. Tense Times with Verbs (1): An Overview of Greek Inflections
9. Tense Times with Verbs (2): Interpreting the Greek Tenses
10. To Be or Not to Be: The Infinitive
11. Going, Going, Gone: The Participle
12. It's a Small Word after All: Adverbs, Conjunctions, and Particles
Part 4: From Alpha to Omega: Finishing Touches
13. A Cure for Clausetrophobia: Greek Clauses
14. To Koine Phrase: The Greek of the New Testament
Key to the Exercises
Appendix 1: Greek Verb Conjugations
Appendix 2: Principal Parts of Selected Verbs