Morphology of Biblical Greek
Overview
The Morphology of Biblical Greek shows second-year students that Greek is very regular in the way it forms words—if you know the rules.
The Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word formation follows a limited set of rules. Once these rules are understood, it becomes clear that forms which once seemed to be irregular or an exception actually follow these morphological rules. The Morphology of Biblical Greek has five parts:
- The rules that determine how Greek words change
- The rules of verb formation, from augment to personal ending
- Paradigms for every type of noun and adjective form, with all the words that belong in each category and any peculiarities of a given word
- All the verbs and principal parts, with verbs that follow the same rules grouped together
- An index of all words in the New Testament with their morphological category
The Morphology of Biblical Greek contains the most complete set of paradigms for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns available for New Testament Greek.
- Categorizes any word that is used in the New Testament as well as others
- Utilizes the best of deductive and inductive learning styles
- Arranges verbs categorically rather than alphabetically
- Phonology
- Verbal Formation
- Indicative Tenses
- Non-Indicative “Moods”
- Noun Paradigms
- Adjective Paradigms
- Principal Parts
Top Highlights
“For example, §2.10 says that when a two-syllable word originally had a vowel-sigma-vowel pattern, the sigma dropped out but the two vowels did not contract. As far as the people of the New Testament times were concerned, the word θεσος never really occurred. The σ had dropped out many years earlier, and nowhere in the New Testament does it ever occur. But at one time the σ was there, and it explains why the ε and ο do not contract to ου in θεός.” (Page 1)
“The first vowel must be an open vowel (α, ε, η, ο, ω), and the second vowel must be a closed vowel (ι, ν) form.” (Page 4)
“It was here that I first realized that Greek was a tremendously regular language, if you know the rules.” (Page xv)
“The changes that we will be discussing are not changes you can see in the New Testament. They are changes that went into making the word appear in the form in which it now does in the New Testament.” (Page 2)
“As I learned these rules, memorization not only became easier but unnecessary in many situations, especially of principal parts. I found that it is essential to think in terms of verbal roots.” (Page xv)
William D. Mounce (PhD, Aberdeen University) lives as a writer in Spokane, Washington. He is the president of Biblical Training, a nonprofit organization offering the finest in evangelical teaching to the world for free. Formerly he was the preaching pastor at a church in Spokane, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of the bestselling New Testament Greek resource, Basics of Biblical Greek, and served as the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible.
Reviews
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ANTONIO MARCOS DOS SANTOS
5/29/2023
Bom dia! Tenho a obra física e agora adquirindo em formado digital.
Forrest Cole
11/9/2021
William Lamb
12/1/2020
Great book from Bill mounce, always appreciate his expertise. One huge issue i have is with spelling accents etc mistakes, it sucks to not have an accurate representation of what is in the book fron a students point of view, i dont wanna memorize the wrong forms if written wrong,i have reported lots of errors to logs directly in report typo tools and throufh emails and rhroufh tech support, and all have fallen on deaf ears and its quite a shame, they push back and say its the publishers fault, but i guess i just need a printed copy to validate the corrections, suxh a shame to spend double the money, makes me question a large sum of the logos library in general, espexially since nothing seems to be adjusted. Would love to upload the pictures fron the digital copy, because some mistakez seem careless and some are realistic enough to confuse a student in greek, maybe not a teacher or someone with more experience, im just trying to help perfect the errors to help other people avoid the conufaion but they arent listening ...or maybe it is the publishers end? If anybody has a print cipy before i boss up ans spend the money to acquire one, i would love to see what your text has in place of the digitized version, whixh it seems they insist is as reliable as rhe printed. They tell me ita a long revision process that has to go throufh the publisher before they can make any changes, i highly doubt that if theissue is on logos end, if the other way around then it makes sense.Jacob Smith
5/8/2018
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