An Introduction to Biblical Greek

A Grammar with Exercises

John D. Schwandt

An Introduction to Biblical Greek: A Grammar with Exercises

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Preface

Lesson 1. The Alphabet

Lesson 2. Accent Marks, Additional Marks, and the Square of Stops

Lesson 3. The Present Active Indicative Verb

Lesson 4. Vowel Length, Accentuation, and ε-Contract Verbs Vowel Length

Lesson 5. O-Stem Nouns (Second Declension)

Lesson 6. The Definite Article, Genitive and Dative Cases, and Prepositions

Lesson 7. O-Stem Neuter Nouns (Second Declension, Continued)

Lesson 8. A-Stem Feminine Nouns (First Declension)

Lesson 9. Exceptions to First-Declension Patterns

Lesson 10. 2-1-2 Pattern Adjectives and the Verb “To Be”

Lesson 11. The Imperfect Indicative Active and Accentuation of Verbs

Lesson 12. The Imperfect of the Verb εἰμί; Demonstrative Pronouns; Forms and Meanings of αὐτός

Lesson 13. The Passive Voice of the Present and Imperfect Indicative

Lesson 14. Deponent Verbs, the Present Imperative, the Relative Pronoun

Lesson 15. The Present Infinitive; Personal and Possessive Pronouns

Lesson 16. The Future Indicative Active and Middle; The Middle Voice

Lesson 17. The Two Root Forms of Verbs, the Reflexive Pronoun, Questions

Lesson 18. The Sigmatic Aorist (First Aorist) Active Forms and the Meaning of Aspectual Stems

Lesson 19. Verbal Root and Irregular Aorist Forms; Object Clauses after Verbs of Saying or Thinking

Lesson 20. The Present, Future, and Aorist Active of Liquid Verbs; Temporal Clauses; The Preposition παρά

Lesson 21. Consonant Stem Nouns (The Third Declension)

Lesson 22. Third Declension, Continued: Semivowel Noun Stems, Neuter Nouns, Irregular Nouns

Lesson 23. Adjectives with Consonant Stems (Third Declension)

Lesson 24. The Aorist Passive and Future Passive

Lesson 25. Participles

Lesson 26. The Genitive Absolute; Interrogative and Indefinite Pronouns; Certain Prepositions

Lesson 27. The Aorist Middle Forms: The Degrees of Comparison for Adjectives and Adverbs

Lesson 28. Contract Verbs Ending in -αω and -οω

Lesson 29. The Perfect and Pluperfect Tenses

Lesson 30. The Subjunctive Mood

Lesson 31. Subjunctive of Contract Verbs and of εἰμί; Further Uses of the Subjunctive

Lesson 32. Further Uses of the Infinitive

Lesson 33. Athematic Verbs; δίδωμι

Lesson 34. Athematic Verbs; ...

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About An Introduction to Biblical Greek: A Grammar with Exercises

A complete introductory grammar that builds on a classic approach to learning Greek.

In An Introduction to Biblical Greek, John D. Schwandt integrates the rigor of a classic Greek grammar with the fruit of contemporary language learning. The result is a one-stop introduction to New Testament Greek that is both scholarly sound and academically friendly. This textbook teaches students the basics of the Greek language through 37 lessons that are supported by translation and writing exercises from the New Testament. These practical lessons and exercises will help readers grasp Greek grammar and vocabulary as they start to translate the text of the New Testament itself. Appendixes on additional grammatical topics offer students the opportunity to dive deeper into their study of the Greek language.

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