Comments on: Greek Summer Reading

By: Joshua Scotton

Joshua Scotton — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:02:09 +0000

Thanks for the Form and Function guides. Very helpful

By: tommy

tommy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:09:37 +0000

Ross, thanks for your comments. Glad these materials were helpful. All these documents will probably get a serious overhaul in the next couple of months due to my teaching Intermediate Greek at Westminster. The Lee Irons stuff is excellent, and should be downloaded in full ASAP as he is thinking about publishing some of it, and while I am sure he has a heart of gold, publishers may not. I think I mentioned his stuff in a subsequent post, but if I didn't shame on me.

Thanks for the recommendations. The Moods sheet will no doubt get an update, and I will try to incorporate more "real world" examples at that time.

Have you seen this book: http://www.wtsbooks.com/product-exec/product_id/6…?? I found it very helpful.

By: tommy

tommy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:15:28 +0000

Actually, Lee Irons's syntax notes are mentioned in this very post.

By: Ross

Ross — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:08:52 +0000

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.

By: tommy

tommy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:04:25 +0000

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.

By: Nicholas T. Batzig

Nicholas T. Batzig — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:39:28 +0000

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.