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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...

4. The Greek of the New Testament that was used with practical uniformity over most of the Roman world is called the Common Greek or κοινή. Not that it was not good Greek, but rather the Greek in common use. There was indeed a literary κοινή and a vernacular κοινή. Plutarch is a good specimen of the literary κοινή while the papyri are chiefly in the vernacular κοινή like most of the New Testament. 5. This κοινή was itself the heir of the past. The various Greek dialects blended on an Attic
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