This page contains external links to helpful, technical articles on matters related to the study of the New Testament. This page lists only content articles/pages. Links to other sites that contain links related to biblical studies, etc. are on my Links page. See the explanatory notes on the main page, including .pdf file explanation. I welcome submissions and suggestions.
Temporal Deixis of the Greek Verb in the Gospel of Mark in Light of Verbal Aspect (v. 10 in the Peter Lang series, Studies in Biblical Greek, ed. D. A. Carson; published Oct. 2000; ISBN: 0-8204-5033-2). This page provides information about the book, supplementary material, and some extracts (editor's and author's prefaces, etc.). Older material, with links to more detailed information, may be found on the pages on this site that deal with my dissertation. (Rodney J. Decker)
New Observations on Voice in the Ancient Greek Verb, Carl Conrad; alternate URL.
"Aorist Passive" in -H-QH (Carl Conrad; extracts from Pierre Chantraine and Andrew Sihler on the origin of the aorist intransitive and "passive" verb forms)
Irregular verbs in NT Greek (chart by Carl Conrad, updated summer 2003)
Compendium of Greek Phonology (Carl Conrad)
The Use of the Infinitive in Biblical Greek (Clyde Votaw) pdf file copy of the complete 1896 publication by the author (orig. Ph.D. diss, Univ. of Chicago); this is on the Library of Congress web site; the URL linked here is temporary (should be accessible through Sept. '03); once this link is outdated you can access the same file through the Library of Congress catalog record (though it was not yet linked there when I first posted this note).
MOODS AND TENSES OF NEW TESTAMENT GREEK (Ernest de Witt Burton) Full text of this helpful grammar/syntax of the verb (3d ed., 1898). I think the Bible Works Greek font is required to read the Greek text in Greek characters. I do not know, however, how or from where one may obtain that font (if at all) apart from buying Bible Works.
William W. Goodwin, Greek Grammar (pdf format)
Participles (Dan Wallace) This is the complete chapter on participles (pp. 613-55) from Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics: An Exegetical Syntax of the NT (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996).
The Greek Aorist Participle (Don Wilkins) "This article discusses the use of aorist participles placed after their governing verbs in the LXX and the New Testament."
La sematica en el Diccionario Griego-Espanol (F. R. Adrados) Spanish article. Intro paragraph: "Entre las novedades que intentamos introducir en nuestro Diccionario Griego-Espanol, que desde 1980 ha editado cinco volumenes que llegan casi hasta el final de la letra delta, esta adecuacion de la redaccion y organizacion de los articulos a criterios de semantica moderna de base sintagmatica y paradigmatica."
EIS TO with the Infinitive. (Norbert Baumert) From: Filolog? Neotestamentaria 11 (1998): 7-24. This article argues that ... (I'm working on a smry! The digest given is in poor English and I'll have to digest enough of the article--which is in German--to figure it out.)
Modal Possibilities for the Elliptical Verb in the Imperative-Comparative Clause in NT Greek (John Makujina) From: Filologia Neotestamentaria 11 (1998) 43-56. The summary given with the article listing is as follows: "This study focuses on the modal possibilities of the elliptical verb in the imperative-comparative clause. After examining every imperative-comparative clause in the NT, it was discovered that comparative clauses that contained a verb were always in the indicative mood. Findings for comparative clauses with an elided verb were similar. Classifications and functions for various types of imperative-comparative clauses in the NT are also included in the paper."
The Importance of the Biblical Languages (Martin Luther) A multi-page excerpt from: "To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools," 1524 (Located on this site.)
J. Gresham Machen, The Minister & His Greek Testament
Participle Use Flow Chart (Rodney J. Decker; 11K .pdf file, 1 page). This chart summarizes the use of the participle in the Greek of the NT. It probably doesn't list every possible use, but it covers most of them. It is designed to help the student think through the possible uses in any given text. The concept for this chart goes back to a similar one by Prof. Best at Dallas Seminary (prob. dating to the early 70s?) that I obtained from a former colleague who had attended DTS then. I have also seen the same chart with other modifications that I think may have been made by Prof. Sproule (?) at Grace Seminary. In my version of it the revisions are substantial. The official flow chart symbols are gone (Best had been an engineer, so they made sense to him, but most of my students don't relate to that genre) and there are some major additions of my own. At this point, the concept is creditable to Best, but I doubt that he'd recognize the content or the specifics as his work.
Simplified Verb Parsing Chart (Rod Decker; 25K .pdf file). This is a one-page reference chart that I use to summarize the morphology of indicative verbs for my first year Greek students. It generally follows the approach of Bill Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek, though I have made some of my own simplifications to his system.
"Difficult" Primary Verb Forms (174K v. 5 .pdf file) This chart lists the more troublesome of the primary verb forms [aka, principal parts]. These are the 50 forms underlined in Mounce's charts and recommended as helpful for a beginning student to memorize. Chart was prepared by Ron Hall, one of my students. Revised April 2002 to use the Galilee font (previous chart used the older Mounce font which does not embed properly).
Intermediate Greek Vocabulary (130k .pdf file) This document contains all NT Greek words that occur 27 times or more in the NT, sorted by frequency. It is the vocabulary assignment schedule that I use in teaching the first semester of second year Greek, but it may well be of use to others as well. This file was output from a database that I've created and contains the Greek word, actual frequency, card number in Gromacki's Vocab. Cards, and an English gloss. As to "Why 27x?"--here's why: in my first year classes students learn words occurring 50 or more times in the NT. In second year they review all these words in two large chunks at the beginning of the semester and then learn 25 new words per week for 9 more weeks.
Basic Greek Vocabulary (84k .pdf file) This document contains all NT Greek words that occur 50 times or more in the NT, sorted by chapter in Mounce's Basics of Biblical Greek. It includes the same info as the previous listing in the same format.
The Greek NT read aloud (from W-H text, which is very similar to the UBS and NA texts) by Marilyn Phemister. Available in MP3 or RealMedia format.
NT Greek for Beginners, J. G. Machen (These are scanned images, not text. Follow the link "About this book" on the relevant Table of Contents page on the site linked here for the same in .rtf, .tiff, .png, and ThML formats.) This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College.
Review of Gerhard Raske's Grammatical Blueprint Bible (series), grammatical diagrams of entire NT and some OT
Verb Charts (Helma Dik, Univ. of Chicago classicist--these are for classical Greek, but still useful for koine) Acrobat v. 4 or higher.
Greek numbers and Greek mathematics (G. Donald Allen, Texas A&M University)
Westcott-Hort text with NA26/27 variants; text prepared by Maurice Robinson, hosted by Wieland Willker.
The Little Sailing (classical Greek texts in Unicode, some with translation)
(My own materials contain quite a few discussions of grammatical issues. See the link following.)
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