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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...

CHAPTER II WHAT IS THE GREEK OF THE NEW TESTAMENT? 1. We are at last in a position to answer this question properly. The difficulty was always largely an artificial one due to the preconceived ideas and lack of due perspective in the use of the known facts. But the new papyri discoveries in Egypt (Fayum, Oxyrhynchus, etc.) have shed a flood of light on the subject. The inscriptions of Asia Minor especially add much information as to the vernacular κοινή. Even the ostraka have a deal to tell about
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