One question I get a lot is “how do I keep up with my Greek?” At the risk of over-simplification, my answer is… wait for it… read Greek!
Lee Irons has a variety of resources on his site to make such reading less intimidating for the beginner to intermediate Greekling. To get started, check out his introduction to his reading program. You will also want to download his more detailed Greek Reading Calendar. Most importantly, pick up a copy of his Greek Syntax Notes, which he promises to distribute in installments throughout the year.
Also, I highly recommend Young’s Intermediate NT Greek, which is concise. comprehensive, linguistically-aware, and easy to use. All together, it is an excellent reference that should be on everyone’s bookshelf, and will be enormously helpful in those tough-to-read sections.
Finally, I am making some of my beginner Form and Function guides available here. They are still a work in progress, and only cover the basics of Greek syntax, but they can serve as a good resource for reminding you of what you already know. These are highly indebted to Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek, Machen/McCartney’s NT Greek for Beginners and Young’s aforementioned Greek grammar (many of the terms of several of the guides have been directly lifted from the last two of these, since they are both used in my Greek class).
- Rules for Verb Forms
- Form and Function Guide
- Moods Function Guide
- Adjective Function Cheat Sheet
- Use of Autos Cheat Sheet
Stay tuned! I plan on posting a variety of Greek resources in the near future, including a guide to typing in Greek and an introduction to diagramming with Bibleworks. So if you haven’t subscribed to the site, do so!
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These are some very helpful resources. Thanks for posting them. Interestingly, Young was(and may still be) a professor at Bob Jones University. BJU’s seminary has a failry impressive language department. You have to watch out for some of the dispi-end times syntactical stretches however.
Young steers pretty clear of theological discussion in his book; at least I haven’t seen anything “dispi”-ish. I like the book because he brings modern linguistic insights to bear on his handling of syntax, which is both rare and invaluable.
And his discourse-analysis section in the back is worth the price of the book, and then some.
This is a pretty late comment (but it's just been that long since I've worked on my Greek!). I was looking over these forms today and found them really helpful. Your organization of the verb charts is well done. Also, the examples in the form and function guide are great. Have you considered adding some examples from Scripture to the "Moods" sheet? It might help put some legs on an otherwise abstract subject. All in all, these are a wonderful resource.
Also, have you checked out Lee Irons Greek NT syntax notes lately? He recently finished them for every book of the NT.
Thanks for the Form and Function guides. Very helpful
Actually, Lee Irons's syntax notes are mentioned in this very post.