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Exegetical Gems from Biblical Greek: A Refreshing Guide to Grammar and Interpretation is unavailable, but you can change that!

Learning Greek is a difficult task, and the payoff may not be readily apparent. To demonstrate the insight that knowing Greek grammar can bring, Benjamin Merkle, a recognized expert in Greek, summarizes thirty-five key Greek grammatical issues and their significance for interpreting the New Testament. As Merkle presents exegetical insights from the Greek New Testament, he offers a strategic and...

Then scholars compared NT Greek with the Greek found in various papyri of the time and discovered that the NT used the common (colloquial or popular) Greek of the day.1 That is, the Greek of the NT is closer to the language of the ordinary person than to that of the educated person who wrote literature for others to read (e.g., Plutarch).2 And yet the Greek of the NT is still somewhat unique.3 Its uniqueness is probably due to at least two factors. First, the NT authors were heavily influenced by
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