Reddit reviews Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar

For Greek:

I highly recommend Bill Mounce as a Biblical Language teacher. I used his books to help me get a grasp of the basics of Greek and they are hands down the most easily accessible.

• He has a Youtube Channel with free lessons in Koine Greek: LINK
  
  
• His book "Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar" is also very helpful and you can get a used copy for a reasonable price on Amazon: LINK
  
  
  For Hebrew:
  
  Unfortunately I don't know of many cheap Hebrew resources to recommend you. I learned the basics using "Biblical Hebrew Grammar" by Bailey and Strange but it seem as if this isn't in print anymore and the price for a copy has gone up significantly.
  
  
  
  
  

If you're going to be working on your computer anyway, this is what you want.

It keylinks to this lexicon. Which you also want.

Both of these will also work on a mobile device (with Logos), if you're away from a PC.

If you're teaching yourself, you might want to take a look at Mounce's Greek for the Rest of Us, which has modest aims (helping the student come to terms with most commentaries), and leads quite nicely into his Basics of Biblical Greek for the more serious do-it-your-selfer.

Visual Greek. Learn using cartoons!!!! A similar method is Greek To Me. Again, learn using cartoons! I've read most of the book and it was a HUGE help. Also, both are Koine, and the visual greek method uses Mounce's book, which is THE standard intro. Mounce also wrote an easier intro for people who just want to know enough to do basic bible studies and use some of the better Greek tools out there, it's called Greek for the rest of us. Other books that take it easy on you are Learn Biblical Greek by John Dobson and English Grammar to Ace New Testament Greek. If you're wondering "Why grammar?" it is because you need to know how grammar works. If you know how it works in your language, you'll have a better grasp of grammar in other languages (at least you'll know what the books you read mean when they talk about active and passive verbs etc...).

I learned Koine (Biblical Greek) from the Mounce book.


Classical Greek is much more complicated.

Koine is usual taught to grad students in two semesters.

I haven't read that text, but we used Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce. I think it's fantastic, and also very accessible. Mounce also offers free online resources to help in working through the text.

I'm working through this one and the workbook that goes with it. That's what was recommended to me when I decided to go back to learning. Just started it, so I can't speak to how good it is quite yet.

>Mostly what u/koine_lingua said. I think a lot of people have recommended this book and the accompanying materials. I minored in Ancient Greek, so my preference is to study Attic Greek.

Since you will be on your own, I would recommend this vocab book. It will break vocab up into manageable sections and if you learn all the words in the book, BOOM, you know like 75% of the most frequent words. The Mounce materials have accompanying flash cards.

I'd see if any churches in your area have any classes or search YouTube for some grammar videos (I know of at least one series that does a fairly decen job).

All that being said, I'd caution you against any preconceived notions that you will obtain some esoteric hidden knowledge by learning this magical language. It's not necessary at all to understand the Bible. I enjoyed the language and in reading Homer, the plays, and some other documents. I also enjoy the knowledge base I have to better understand textual criticism, but it's not like I possess some mystical insight into God's revelation. That's Gnosticism.

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Mostly what /u/koine_lingua said. I think a lot of people have recommended this book and the accompanying materials. I minored in Ancient Greek, so my preference is to study Attic Greek.

Since you will be on your own, I would recommend this vocab book. It will break vocab up into manageable sections and if you learn all the words in the book, BOOM, you know like 75% of the most frequent words. The Mounce materials have accompanying flash cards.

I'd see if any churches in your area have any classes or search YouTube for some grammar videos (I know of at least one series that does a fairly decent job).

All that being said, I'd caution you against any preconceived notions that you will obtain some esoteric hidden knowledge by learning this magical language. It's not necessary at all to understand the Bible. I enjoyed the language and in reading Homer, the plays, and some other documents. I also enjoy the knowledge base I have to better understand textual criticism, but it's not like I possess some mystical insight into God's revelation. That's Gnosticism.

Edit: I can't spell in English.

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Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar

That's all I can think of at the moment. I'll be able to look at my bookshelf tomorrow.