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GtrsRGr8 · 03-12-2016, 05:53 PM

In my experience, finding a free, good, recently-published beginner's New Testament Greek (koine) grammar is a rarity. And yet, this one is free, it has been recently published, and I think that it is probably a good one based upon what I've read.

Among the things in its favor is the fact that it has been classroom-tested, being designed for and used in the Elementary Greek course at a well-regarded seminary, Asbury Theological Seminary (and having gone through "numbers of revisions" based upon experience in its actual use).

This book is regularly sold to the public, being for sale at Amazon at least. However, it is not available in a digital form, at least at Amazon. The only way that I know of that you can get it in digital form is to get it free that way via Asbury's/First Fruits Press' website.

There may not be any Mobilereader who will be needing this textbook for an elementary Greek course that he or she will be taking. However, I can envision a person with sufficient motivation and self-discipline using a textbook to work their way, by themselves, through the first year's level of New Testament Greek. I know people who have done it.

Title: Elementary New Testament Greek.
Format(s): Pdf.
Author(s): Joseph R. Dongell.
Publisher: First Fruits Press.
Pages: x + 222.
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.5 (2); 5.0 (1) at GoodReads.
Price: $0.00.
Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there: $3.52 (Used, "Good." Paperback).
Book Description (Amazon):
The world does not [need] another Elementary Greek Grammar! There are many fine products on the market that have proven themselves to be useful both in the classroom and for private instruction.

The need for this particular grammar arises from the peculiar shape of the MDiv curriculum at Asbury Theological Seminary. Several years ago the faculty adopted a curriculum that required one semester of Greek and one semester of Hebrew, each as preparatory for a basic exegesis course in each discipline.

It became clear after several years of trial and error that a “lexical” or “tools” approach to learning Greek and Hebrew was inadequate, no matter how skilled the instructors or how motivated the students. In today’s general vacuum of grammatical training in public education across the United States, students typically enter seminary training with no knowledge of how languages work. Any training we might give them in accessing grammatical information through the use of Bible software programs will, we learned, come to naught in the absence of an understanding of just what such information actually means. We agreed that we actually needed to “teach the
language itself,” at least in some rudimentary fashion, if we hoped students would make sense of grammatical and linguistic issues involved biblical interpretation.
Comments: The ebook states that the "First Fruits Press has licensed the digital version of this work under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 United States License." For that reason, and the fact that it is offered as a free download from one of Asbury Seminary's websites (http://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/6/) (the publisher, First Fruits Press, being a digital imprint of the Asbury Theological Seminary), I believe this to be a legal free download.
URL: http://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/...=academicbooks (direct link).

03-12-2016, 05:53 PM	#98
GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	FREE High-Quality Elementary New Testament Greek Grammar! In my experience, finding a free, good, recently-published beginner's New Testament Greek (koine) grammar is a rarity. And yet, this one is *free, it has been recently published, and I think that it is probably a good one based upon what I've read. Among the things in its favor is the fact that it has been classroom-tested, being designed for and used in the Elementary Greek course at a well-regarded seminary, Asbury Theological Seminary (and having gone through "numbers of revisions" based upon experience in its actual use). This book is regularly sold to the public, being for sale at Amazon at least. However, it is not available in a digital form, at least at Amazon. The only way that I know of that you can get it in digital form is to get it free* that way via Asbury's/First Fruits Press' website. There may not be any Mobilereader who will be needing this textbook for an elementary Greek course that he or she will be taking. However, I can envision a person with sufficient motivation and self-discipline using a textbook to work their way, by themselves, through the first year's level of New Testament Greek. I know people who have done it. Title: *Elementary New Testament Greek. Format(s):* Pdf. Author(s): Joseph R. Dongell. Publisher: First Fruits Press. Pages: x + 222. Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews (Amazon): 4.5 (2); 5.0 (1) at GoodReads. Price: *$0.00. Lowest Price at (or through Amazon) if available from there:* $3.52 (Used, "Good." Paperback). Book Description (Amazon): The world does not [need] another Elementary Greek Grammar! There are many fine products on the market that have proven themselves to be useful both in the classroom and for private instruction. The need for this particular grammar arises from the peculiar shape of the MDiv curriculum at Asbury Theological Seminary. Several years ago the faculty adopted a curriculum that required one semester of Greek and one semester of Hebrew, each as preparatory for a basic exegesis course in each discipline. It became clear after several years of trial and error that a “lexical” or “tools” approach to learning Greek and Hebrew was inadequate, no matter how skilled the instructors or how motivated the students. In today’s general vacuum of grammatical training in public education across the United States, students typically enter seminary training with no knowledge of how languages work. Any training we might give them in accessing grammatical information through the use of Bible software programs will, we learned, come to naught in the absence of an understanding of just what such information actually means. We agreed that we actually needed to “teach the language itself,” at least in some rudimentary fashion, if we hoped students would make sense of grammatical and linguistic issues involved biblical interpretation. Comments: The ebook states that the "First Fruits Press has licensed the digital version of this work under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3.0 United States License." For that reason, and the fact that it is offered as a *free* download from one of Asbury Seminary's websites (http://place.asburyseminary.edu/academicbooks/6/) (the publisher, First Fruits Press, being a digital imprint of the Asbury Theological Seminary), I believe this to be a legal *free* download. URL: http://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/...=academicbooks (direct link). Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 03-12-2016 at 06:04 PM.