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A Short Grammar of the Greek New Testament, for Students Familiar with the Elements of Greek is unavailable, but you can change that!

B. B. Warfield once called Robertson’s Greek scholarship “monumental,” and George Truett said he “would exchange a billion dollars” for one of his grammars. Robertson devoted his life to the genius of the Greek language—its history and the individuals who have used it for speaking, writing, exegesis, and interpretation. At the time of publication, Robertson had taught Greek for twenty years and...

and Sophocles, Herodotus and Thucydides, Plato and Plutarch, Demosthenes and Paul, John and Tricoupis. Greek is not dead. Language has a history and can only be understood rightly by a long view of its whole career. 4. The older grammars gave the literary Attic as the basis of the Greek New Testament and left out of view all the other dialects save in footnotes. Even the later Attic was given scant justice, while the vernacular came in for little consideration. The vernacular language has received
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