EXPLANATION OF THE ICONS

for THE GREEK GRAMMAR

-LINK TO LEARNING BIBLICAL KOINE GREEK

This signals a hyperlink to one of the sixteen chapters of the grammar,

and also to one of the ten appendises. These files are in PDF format.

= LINK TO A PRACTICE DRILL ASSIGNMENT.

This signals a link to one of two practice drills included with each

lesson. The file is in the PDF format where it can be printed out and

completeled by hand.

= LINK TO LEARNING BIBLICAL KOINE GREEK

This signals a hyperlink to the Preface, Introduction, and Table of Contents

for the entire grammar. This is in HTML format. Hyperlinks to the rest of

the contents of the grammar are embedded in this file.

= LINK TO A PRACTICE DRILL ASSIGNMENT KEY.

This signals a hyperlink to a practice drills assignment taken from

lesson in the grammar. This file contains the correct answers to

the practice drill for a self-checking of the work of the student

in completeing the match practice drill.

= LINK TO A WRITTEN EXERCISE ASSIGNMENT.

This signals a hyperlink to the written exerice that is listed at the end of

each grammar lesson. This document is in PDF format so it can be easily

printed out and completed by hand copying the ansers.

...=LINK TO GRAMMAR AID FILE.

This signals a hyperlink to some type of grammar aid contained

in eith a a HTML or PDF formatted file. These are designed mainly

to provide visual and audio help with aspects of each lesson.

= LINK TO A WRITTEN EXERCISE ASSIGNMENT.

This signals a hyperlink to the written exercise that is listed at the end of

each grammar lesson. This document is in MSW .doc format so it can be

dowloarded, and used with either Miscrosoft Word or another

compatible word processing software in to complete the assignment

electronically.

= LINK TO AUDIO AID FILE.

This signals a hyperlink to an audio recording of some important

grammar aspect. These additionally provide examples of the

pronounciation of Greek words.

=LINK TO A WRITTEN EXERCISE KEY.

This signals a hyperlink to the written exercise assignment linked at the

end of each grammar lesson. This file, however, contains the correct

answers to the matich written exercise assignment. It is only given

at the beginning of the grammar for the student to self-check their

work in completing the written exercise assignment.

 

= LINK TO PRESENTATION AID.

This signals a hyperlink to a MS Power Point Presentation file

that is intended to provide an audio/visual illustration of some

important aspect of grammar.

= LINK TO THE VOCABULARY LIST.

This signals a hyperlink to the vocabulary words contained in each

lesson. Two lists are given in each file: 1) a accumulative lising of

all of the BASIC VOCABULARY for all the lessons up to that point

in the grammar, and 2) the new BASIC VOCABULARY words for

that lesson in the grammar.

The BASIC VOCABULARY contains a listing of all the words inside

the Greek New Testament that occur at least ten times or more.

These are words that the student should master in preparing to

use the GNT without excessive dependence upon a Greek Lexicon.

In total this list comes to almost 1,100 words by the end of the

grammar.

Each lesson also contains additional vocabulary words that are

necessary for translating the short story written in Greek to

illustrate the culture theme, the grammar, and the syntax of

Koine Greek up to that point in the grammar.

 

These icons are exclusive to the Greek grammar LEARNING BIBLICAL KOINE GREEK. They signal a hyperlink

mostly to a PDF formatted file containing some aspect of the grammar. Audio and AV files are also included in the

grammar along with a few animated presentation slides. This is based on the 4th edition of the grammar that was

completed in 2002 and was used to teach the first three semesters of Greek study at Gardner-Webb University. But

the grammar is based upon a three volume publication produced while I was professor at Southwestern Baptist

Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas.

 

The grammar combines a large number of distinctives not found in beginning studies of Koine Greek presently

available. Among these is a combining of the study of both morphology and syntax into a single study in a more

natural learning process. No study of modern foreign languages would dare to separate out these two essential

aspects of language, but the teaching of Koine Greek in the western hemisphere has done this for well over a

century and largely stands behind the dramatic decline of Greek studies in universities and seminaries in North

America today. This grammar brings these two aspects back together in a natural learning experience.

 

Also contained uniquely in this grammar is a feature labeled LEARNING THE CULTURE THROUGH THE LANGUAGE.

This serves several objectives, among these being the repeated reminder that language study in not in itself

a worthy study goal. Language is a 'window' into the thought world of a culture different from that of the

student's native culture and mother tongue. This grammar puts great emphasis upon Greek study as one important

means of building bridges of understanding between the first century world of Jesus and the apostolic writers of

the NT and the world of the student. It both presupposes and stresses learning well both the source language of Koine

Greek and the receptor mother tongue of the student. A basic knowledge of both languages is critical if correct

passage of ideas from the text in the 'then' world to the 'now' world of the student.

 

LORIN L CRANFORD

June 2015