New Testament Greek: An Introductory Grammar

by Eric George Jay

This introductory course in New Testament Greek assumes no knowledge either of the language or of technical terms, and carries the student up to and beyond the standard required for ordination exams. Examples are quoted mainly from St Mark. Exercises provide practice in translation.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

Reviews

[Kevin de Ataíde]

This is a good reference book, with thirty chapters offering a gradual summary of NT Greek. It is certainly not a primer and moves too quickly to be an ideal introductory grammar (as I first thought it could be). The exercises after each chapter are also not as effective as I would have expected. The author has the laudable opinion that mastery of a language is not gauged by translation from that language, but translation INTO that language. Consequently the exercises are mostly translation from English into Greek, but their use requires the supervision of a competent Greek instructor. The cross-referencing is excellent though, and for that, for the excellent tabulated summaries and for the short introductions to basic grammar, I recommend this for a New Testament bookshelf. Finally, the Greek word-list at the back could have had a parallel English translation, but it only refers back to the pages the words were introduced in. Four stars, falling to three.