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Intermediate Greek Grammar: Syntax for Students of the New Testament is unavailable, but you can change that!

This intermediate grammar for students of New Testament Greek incorporates the advances of recent linguistic research in an accessible and understandable way. Drawing on years of teaching experience at a leading seminary, David Mathewson and Elodie Ballantine Emig help students extend their grasp of Greek for reading and interpreting the New Testament and related writings. The authors make...

wholes, make up the majority (1,241) of NT infinitives; present forms, viewing actions/states as unfolding, follow (996); and perfect forms, focusing on existing states of affairs, occur only 49 times. All four tense-forms of the infinitive may often be translated as “to …”; the future infinitive does indicate expectation, however, and the perfect could be translated as “to have ——ed” in certain contexts. Thus it is especially important for the interpreter to identify the aspect of an infinitive,
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