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Biblical Greek: A Compact Guide offers Greek students a one-stop guide for the grammar, morphology, and vocabulary of biblical Greek. This resource follows the organization and format familiar to the hundreds of thousands of students who have used Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar in their first-year Greek courses, but it is also usable by students who learned with a different grammar. By limiting...

1. There are two basic styles in writing Greek (see discussion of Aristotle in BDF #458). The “running” (εἰρομένη) style takes a series of complete thoughts and strings them together, often with the liberal use of conjunctions such as καί. This is typical of Semitic style (and its use of the ו), as well as that of John, Mark, and narrative in general. Another version of this style starts with a basic statement, and then extends it by adding on a participial phrase,
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