A Handbook of New Testament Greek Grammar - Softcover

Peter Frick

9780973902655: A Handbook of New Testament Greek Grammar

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ISBN 10: 0973902655 ISBN 13: 9780973902655

Publisher: Laodamia Press, 2007

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This is a unique textbook of New Testament Greek. Here the student will learn the grammatical and syntactical fundamentals with a solid base of vocabulary, in an arrangement geared for the best results. The first half of the book presents grammar and forms, as well as Greek to English and English to Greek sentences. The second half is comprised of many biblical and extra biblical texts with running vocabulary. Professors and students of New Testament Greek, or anyone interested in the subject, will welcome and find this book extremely useful with its up-to-date scholarship.

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About the Author

Peter Frick, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Academic Dean at St. Paul's United College, University of Waterloo, Canada.

Review

Book review: A Handbook of New Testament Greek Grammar
Steven R. McEvoy

I have had the pleasure and privilege of taking a number of courses from Prof. Peter Frick at St. Paul s United Church College at the University of Waterloo. I have seen this book go through many transformations and different drafts and editions, as it was used in class with hundreds of students. I first encountered the book in 2001 in the course it was written to support. Since that time I have gone back and worked on my New Testament Greek on a number of different occasions. I have even worked for Prof. Frick as a research assistant, and helped develop the web based version of this course.

I have used about 15 different New Testament Greek textbooks over the last decade or so. Having a dual form of dyslexia, learning languages has always presented difficulties for me. When working on NT Greek I have used all the tools I could find books, audio books, study aids and study guides galore. The book I always come back to is Dr. Frick's.

Frick's approach seems to me to be the most logical and practical, such that by the end of the book you will have the 500 most common words in the Greek New Testament in your vocabulary. The next largest advantage is that by the time you are halfway through the book, you will have enough vocabulary to read entire passages in the Greek New Testament. Frick accomplishes this by introducing the reader to both verb and noun forms of the roots of words. What this means is that you will encounter words for which you know the root as either a verb or noun form, and recognize it, and can put two and two together and recognize the prefix or suffix that is the other form as noun or verb with the root and to determine the meaning of the word. This is one of the most encouraging results of Frick's method. As you progress through the chapters and the lessons in the book, you are able to read more and more of the New Testament and writings contemporary with it.

Another great strength of the book is its appendices, which have extensive samples of writings from the time of the New Testament, and Study Guides and Aids. The book also provides answer keys to working through each chapter.

This book will be of great benefit to a casual self-taught scholar wishing to read the New Testament in the original Greek or to the serious academic scholar beginning his or her adventures in New Testament Greek Studies. I even know a classics major who took this course rather than the Classical Greek because of the speed at which he would expand his vocabulary. Now after many years of revision in class testing the material term after term it is finally published for the general public. This book will always be a treasured resource on my bookshelf. If you pick it up I am sure you will find it invaluable to your biblical studies as well.

--Imprint Publications, Waterloo 2008-02-22

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