Beginning With New Testament Greek

by Merkle, Benjamin L; Plummer, Robert L.

• ISBN13: 9781433650567
• ISBN10: 1433650568
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-08-01
• Publisher: B&H Academic

Summary

From their decades of combined teaching experience, Benjamin L. Merkle and Robert L. Plummer have produced an ideal resource for novice Greek students to not only learn the language but also kindle a passion for reading the Greek New Testament. Designed for those new to Greek, Beginning with New Testament Greek is a user-friendly textbook for elementary Greek courses at the college or seminary level.
 

Author Biography

Benjamin L. Merkle is professor of New Testament and Greek at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.

?Robert L. Plummer is the Collin and Evelyn Aikman Professor of Biblical Studies at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. 

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Morphological Abbreviations 
Introduction

1. The Greek Alphabet 
2. First Declension Nouns 
3. Second Declension Nouns 
4. The Basics of Greek Verbs 
Introducing Critical Texts of the Greek New Testament 
5. Present Indicative Verbs 
6. Imperfect Indicative Verbs
7. Contract Verbs
8. Prepositions
Introducing Textual Criticism
9. Personal and Relative Pronouns 
10. Future Indicative Verbs 
11. First Aorist Indicative Verbs 
12. Second Aorist Indicative Verbs
Introducing Vocabulary-Building Resources, Lexicons, and Other Word Study Tools 
13. Liquid Verbs 
14. Third Declension Nouns
15. Perfect and Pluperfect Indicative Verbs 
16. Adjectives and Adverbs
Introduction to Commentaries 
17. Present Participles 
18. Aorist Participles
19. Perfect Participles
20. Other Pronouns 
Introduction to Diagramming 
21. Infinitives 
22. Subjunctives 
23. Imperatives and Optatives 
24. Μι Verbs
Introducing Digital Resources 

Key to the Practice Exercises 
Vocabulary
Glossary of Terms 
Name Index
Subject Index
Scripture Index