This package provides a highly successful and widely used biblical Greek textbook, J.W. Wenham's The Elements of New Testament Greek, along with a newly recorded CD containing spoken versions of the vocabulary lists in Wenham's book, and a manual for the learning of Greek syntax with examples keyed to Wenham. The CD offers a valuable pronuciation guide, and the syntax lists show in detail how Greek grammar works. Together, these items provide the student with the basic resources required to learn New Testament Greek, whether in a classroom or for self-study.
"Young's booklet will [be sufficient for students with higher academic capabilities and goals] by providing more complex (and accentuated!) Greek sentences." - Religious Studies Review
"The CD that accompanies [Wenham and Young books] contains a helpful pronunciation guide that will be particularly appreciated by students interested in self-study. The entire set is recommended to teachers and students as good introductory material that is expedient and manageable." - Religious Studies Review
The Elements of New Testament Greek by J. W. Wenham Preface
Preface to the 1991 edition
Introduction: English grammar
1. The Greek language
2. Capital letters, breathings and other signs
3. The present indicative active
4. Verbs
5. Second declension nouns
6. The genitive and dative cases
7. Gender: second declension neuter nouns
8. First declension feminine nouns (i)
9. First declension feminine nouns (ii)
Revision Tests 1
10. First declension masculine nouns
11. Second declension adjectives: the attributive use of adjectives
Adjectives used as nouns
12. Predicative use of adjectives: present indicative of the verb ‘to be’
13. The imperfect indicative adjective: compound verbs
14. Demonstratives
15. Imperfects
16. Cases, time, prepositions: preparatory use of ‘there’ and ‘it’
17. The passive voice of the present and imperfect indicative
18. The relative pronoun: the present imperative
Revision Tests 2
19. Personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns
20. The present infinitive: uses of the infinitive
21. The future active
22. Verb-stems and tense-stems
23. The middle voice: futures
24. The first Aorist active
25. The second Aorist active: principal parts
26. The future and Aorist of liquid verbs
27. The first and second Aorist middle
Revision Tests 3
28. Third declension masculine and feminine nouns with consonant stems
29. Third declension neuter nouns
30. Third declension adjectives. interrogative and indefinite pronouns
31. Third declension nouns with vowel stems
32. Adjectives and pronouns of the first and third declensions
33. Comparison of adjectives. Formations and comparison of adverbs
Revision Tests 4
34. Perfect and pluperfect
35. The Aorist and future passives
36. Participles
37. The genitive absolute: periphrastic tenses
38. The subjunctive mood
39. Prohibitions
40. Contracted verbs
Revision Tests 5
41–44. Verbs
Revision Tests 6–7
The next step
Vocabularies
Table of principal parts
Summary of grammar
English-Greek vocabulary
Greek–English Index
General index. Vocabulary Words for New Testament Greek spoken and recorded on audio cassette by Jonathan T. Pennington (two cassettes) Spoken pronunciation guides to New Testament Greek based on the chapters of J. W. Wenham’s book. Syntax Lists for Students of New Testament Greek by Norman H. Young Introduction
1. The infinitive
2. The articular infinitive with prepositions
3. The participle
4. The subjunctive mood
5. Conditional sentences
6. Miscellaneous syntactical items
Appendix: Glossary of grammatical terms.
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