More Greek and Hebrew Resources

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Smyth's Greek Grammar Revised 1956 Edition -- There is a poorly produced electronic edition of an earlier version of this work available from Logos and also at Perseus (but not as a single download.) This remains the most important Greek Grammar in the English language. A searchable edition would be most welcome not only for biblical scholars but classicists.

 

Lambdin's Hebrew Grammar -- Those who wish to learn biblical Hebrew are well served with excellent grammars. Yet in terms of a thorough and solid grounding there are few that rival Lambdin who answers questions most leave unanswered, and whose exercises are superior to those found in other grammars. The lessons are short with lots of exercises (as opposed to long lessons and short exercises). Lambdin is unique also in that he relies on transliteration as a tool for pronunciation and memorization. This is an excellent approach since transliteration (contrary to what some may think) is an essential tool for students as it helps with syllabification and pronunciation.

 

Seow's Hebrew Grammar. Although Seow may not initially seem to be as easy as some other grammars (the first few chapters are relatively technical), it places students on a firm footing and makes the study of the Hebrew language easier in the long run. Seow combines the best deductive and inductive methodologies. His Hebrew exercises are based on the actual biblical text and they are challenging without being overly simplistic.

 

A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Unabridged by Max Zerwick. The work offers a thorough analysis of almost every word in the Greek NT, and provides parsing, definitions, and explanations of Greek constructions. The work was originally in Latin but has been translated and adapted into English.

 

Scrivener's Edition of the Textus Receptus with original notes and bold rendering of textual variants.

 

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek -- I have a hard copy of this work and find myself using it more frequently. 

 

The Greek NT SBL Edition -- Not sure if the rights to produce this could be procured. 

 

All the Greek Verbs -- N. Marone -- Accordance offers parsing for all the words of the NT and LXX but Marone parses all Greek verbs. It is a tool I find helpful from time to time. 

 

1660 Geneva Bible Notes -- Not Greek, but I thought I would add it nonetheless 

 

NEB - New English Bible -- Idem 

 

 

[Donald Cobb]

 

Smyth's Greek Grammar Revised 1956 Edition -- There is a poorly produced electronic edition of an earlier version of this work available from Logos and also at Perseus (but not as a single download.) This remains the most important Greek Grammar in the English language. A searchable edition would be most welcome not only for biblical scholars but classicists.

 

Lambdin's Hebrew Grammar -- Those who wish to learn biblical Hebrew are well served with excellent grammars. Yet in terms of a thorough and solid grounding there are few that rival Lambdin who answers questions most leave unanswered, and whose exercises are superior to those found in other grammars. The lessons are short with lots of exercises (as opposed to long lessons and short exercises). Lambdin is unique also in that he relies on transliteration as a tool for pronunciation and memorization. This is an excellent approach since transliteration (contrary to what some may think) is an essential tool for students as it helps with syllabification and pronunciation.

 

Seow's Hebrew Grammar. Although Seow may not initially seem to be as easy as some other grammars (the first few chapters are relatively technical), it places students on a firm footing and makes the study of the Hebrew language easier in the long run. Seow combines the best deductive and inductive methodologies. His Hebrew exercises are based on the actual biblical text and they are challenging without being overly simplistic.

 

A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Unabridged by Max Zerwick. The work offers a thorough analysis of almost every word in the Greek NT, and provides parsing, definitions, and explanations of Greek constructions. The work was originally in Latin but has been translated and adapted into English.

 

Scrivener's Edition of the Textus Receptus with original notes and bold rendering of textual variants.

 

The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek -- I have a hard copy of this work and find myself using it more frequently. 

 

The Greek NT SBL Edition -- Not sure if the rights to produce this could be procured. 

 

All the Greek Verbs -- N. Marone -- Accordance offers parsing for all the words of the NT and LXX but Marone parses all Greek verbs. It is a tool I find helpful from time to time. 

 

1660 Geneva Bible Notes -- Not Greek, but I thought I would add it nonetheless 

 

NEB - New English Bible -- Idem 

 

 

 

I'm not familiar with Seow's grammar but Smyth, Lambdin and Zerwick (i.e., M. Zerwick and M. Groenevor. IMO, Zerwick's Biblical Grammar is less valuable) would all be welcome additions!

 

Logos has pretty much exclusive rights to the SBL GNT, unfortunately (actually very constraining purchase requirements).

 

The BrillDag has been suggested several times. It would be great to see it in Accordance! Same for NEB which has also been suggested.

 

For all these, +1 !

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While Smyth would be good, Cambridge Grammar of Classical Greek is gaining popularity I believe - I haven't done a systematic comparison and I use both. Given the complexity of producing a grammar as a module (said to be among the most difficult to do) if there were only one I'm not sure if I'd go Smyth or CGCG. Smyth is a really great reference I have to say. I'd buy either if they were offered by Accordance, certainly, and probably both if both were. There was a thread on BrillDAG a short time ago - it looks like it may be coming though no one has said when. I very much want that lexicon myself.

 

Zerwick I can't say I use though I have a small copy. I have used it but I tend to have enough in Accordance for most purposes that it doesn't see use.

 

As Donald says the SBL licence is a problem. There is discussion in the archives I think as SBL has been requested before. I doubt we'll see it in Accordance.

 

Marone I am not familiar with. Oh hang on .... yes I've seen this but not in the flesh. Marinone. I think I read a bunch of the reviews on Amazon which are rather mixed I have to say. One reviewer suggests "An Index of Greek Verb Forms" by J J Bodoh.  but that appears very difficult to obtain. So perhaps Marinone might fill a niche. There are often requests for support for parsing information and Marinone might provide the bones for that. The problem with a tool like this is that searching lexica is so easy in Acc that they are not so useful, particularly if it is only a listing of forms with little or no usage guidance.

 

So on your list I'd go for BrillDAG, Smyth or CGCG and perhaps Zerwick if not too pricey, on the Greek side. My Hebrew has suffered as I've pushed further and further into Greek so I cannot comment on the Hebrew choices except to say that both Lambdin and Seow have been requested before if I recall correctly, so there may be some interest in them.

 

Thx

D

[jlm]

 

Smyth's Greek Grammar Revised 1956 Edition -- There is a poorly produced electronic edition of an earlier version of this work available from Logos and also at Perseus (but not as a single download.) This remains the most important Greek Grammar in the English language. A searchable edition would be most welcome not only for biblical scholars but classicists.

 

 

There probably is a single XML file somewhere for Perseus's digitization of the 1920 edition. Logos probably found it and converted it. It might be in the 125MB Greek and Roman download here, but I'm not going to look now. The 1956 edition could doubtless be better, but that means getting rights and a major effort to digitize it, since all of the Greek text and all the tables probably have to be entered by hand. For the CGCG, on the other hand, the publisher surely has an etext, so it would be much easier for Oak Tree to build an Accordance resource.

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Smyth's 1920 Greek Grammar is in the public domain and is a free PDF download at Textkit. It consists of page images instead of text, but it is completely bookmarked, so it is easy to find the section you want.

I tried to import it as a User Tool in Accordance, but it will not import that page images unfortunately.

[danielamari]

To me, the most important Greek Grammar is the work by Stanley Porter. 

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To me, the most important Greek Grammar is the work by Stanley Porter. 

 

Verbal Aspect ? or something else ? He's written a ton of stuff.

 

Thx

D

[EricC]

 

Lambdin's Hebrew Grammar -- Those who wish to learn biblical Hebrew are well served with excellent grammars. Yet in terms of a thorough and solid grounding there are few that rival Lambdin who answers questions most leave unanswered, and whose exercises are superior to those found in other grammars. The lessons are short with lots of exercises (as opposed to long lessons and short exercises). Lambdin is unique also in that he relies on transliteration as a tool for pronunciation and memorization. This is an excellent approach since transliteration (contrary to what some may think) is an essential tool for students as it helps with syllabification and pronunciation.

 

Seow's Hebrew Grammar. Although Seow may not initially seem to be as easy as some other grammars (the first few chapters are relatively technical), it places students on a firm footing and makes the study of the Hebrew language easier in the long run. Seow combines the best deductive and inductive methodologies. His Hebrew exercises are based on the actual biblical text and they are challenging without being overly simplistic.

 

A Grammatical Analysis of the Greek New Testament: Unabridged by Max Zerwick. The work offers a thorough analysis of almost every word in the Greek NT, and provides parsing, definitions, and explanations of Greek constructions. The work was originally in Latin but has been translated and adapted into English.

 

Scrivener's Edition of the Textus Receptus with original notes and bold rendering of textual variants.

 

 

 

 

 

+1 Lambdin

+1 Seow

+1 Zerwick

+1000 Scrivener's TR

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Just to respond briefly. As for Zerwick, I personally think this is a very valuable work which provides a lot of information beyond parsing, and shows to my mind a deep understanding not only of Koine Greek but Classical forms too. As for Stanley Porter, I have worked through parts of his "Fundamentals of New Testament Greek" and agree it is a work of a very high order. Smyth's Grammar, however, is a different kind of grammar, the standard reference for Ancient Greek and is broader in scope than a New Testament Grammar. Finally, as for Smyth's availability in PDF. Thanks for that link. The limitation though is that it is not searchable unless one is searching for English words. 

Edited June 17, 2020 by revrari

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I should take another look at Zerwick then perhaps. As for Porter I have not seen this work (https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-New-Testament-Greek-English/dp/0802828272) but I can imagine it to be challenging as reviewers say. But it could be a good addition to Accordance. I'll have to get a copy from a library and see what I think. Now that I come to think of it I am not sure that Accordance has anything by Porter.

 

Thx

D