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Summary: Delightful! Could become a crutch for verbs.
Review: After I finished first-year NT Greek, I used this precious gem of a tool to read Colossians with significant understanding in about four hours! This is better than ANY of the computerized Greek NT study helps.Use this tool with Zerwick's excellent little grammar book, to which it's keyed. In the few places where I've found that my biases differ from Zerwick's, his have always been easy enough to isolate and think about. Use this tool for quick reading; don't use it for exegesis papers, and don't let it become a crutch for verb forms.
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Summary: This baby is a jewel!
Review: After reading the reviews of this work, I hesitatingly ordered (fearful that it might be a little too "basic" and perhaps too "elementary" to be of much help). WRONG! This baby is a jewel! Besides providing the basic information concerning tense, voice, mood, etc., it also provides a brief interpretation of figures of speech and other truly relevant information that is either explicit or implicit within the Greek text. For example, in Revelation 1:18 you will find this notation explaining the idiom "keys of death and hades"--here, the power of delivering from or consigning to the lower world." In various genitive constructions, Zerwick provides the relevant possibilities for one to consider. For example, Romans 1:5 the phrase "obedience of faith" (the literal translation of this phrase) is rather ambiguous (as Paul likely meant it to be). But Zerwick shows that this gentive phrase could be understood as (1)a subjective genitive= "obedience that springs from faith" (2) an objective genitive= ("obedience to faith") or (3) an epexegetic genitive= (obedience which consists in faith." In some verses Zewick doesn't give ALL of the possibilities (for that would make the book prohibitively large). But he gives an amazing amount of information in a very small amount of space and with a brevity of words. One note--this work does use lots of abbreviations. But they are pretty self-evident. But for the newbey to greek grammar, there is a brief glossary explaining the abbreviations. The preface speaks of the "purpose" for which this work was produced--" It is hoped that this English revised edition...will mean that the Greek text of the New Testament will not remain excusively a tool on the desks of a decreasing number of specialists but will become a living power in the hands of theologians, of preachers of the Word, of directors of Bible discussion-circles, and finally in the hands of those who pray in private from the Word of God. This is the purpose to be served." As far as production quality. It isn't actually paper-back. It is a thin plastic. I wish it were thicker as it feels a little fragile. And it may be that the binding will wear out and come apart if this baby isn't treated with some care. But be that as it may, this is a work that every person working in the Greek text ought to have. I wish I had known about this analytical grammar back in my days of seminary. For now I see that this is something that I will probably keep on my person both at home as well as when I travel and can't take my library with me.
One more thing: This work is great no matter what level you are on. If you are new to Greek, you will be able to glean much. And if you are well-seasoned in Greek, you will glean even more. But let me say with no reservations--This baby is a jewel! You will not be sorry if you purchase this. I just pray that they will improve the cover and the binding in future editions. But I'll take it "as is" anyway! 5 stars!!!
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Summary: It's a BIG help!
Review: If you're learning Koine, this helps when your brain shuts down and you have absolutely NO clue what form that word is or what the lexical form is and your dictionary has failed you. With this, like Kubo Sakae's handy-dandy Reader's Greek-English Lexicon, you can look up book & verse! :D It gives you Greek idioms, too & sometimes commentary. :)
This book will make you want to cheer!
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